Ep. 1880 Is Progressivism Dying?

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

I recently read an editorial in Modern Age by editor Dan McCarthy arguing that progressivism's strength is only apparent, and in fact its prospects are not nearly as great as we think. I'd love to believe this. I talk through it in this episode.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, Episode 1880.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Woods Show.
0:13.4	Hey folks, Tom Woods here.
0:16.1	Our old friend Dan McCarthy, who is editor of the journal Modern Age,
0:20.9	which has been around since the late 1950s as a fixture of conservative intellectual thought,
0:27.5	just wrote a piece called Dead End for the Left, in which the first sentence reads,
0:34.4	progressiveism is a dying ideology.
0:37.3	I thought this is just wishful thinking.
0:39.8	I have to dig into this one.
0:41.6	I'm not sure I buy this.
0:42.7	So I'm not actually sure how I'm going to conclude.
0:46.6	I'm just going to start talking about this.
0:48.5	I have to talk this through.
0:50.0	I'd like to believe this is the case.
0:52.3	I'm unconvinced, but I'm going to walk through what Dan says
0:56.7	in this particular episode.
0:58.4	So here we go.
0:59.7	Now we all know and Dan does not deny that progressiveism is, shall we say, hegemonic,
1:06.9	whether it's we're talking about on college campuses or in the media, but he says that
1:11.8	this is misleading.
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