progressivism

Special Report
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: WEIRD
Increasingly, postgraduate education and proximity to cities of major cultural and economic influence define “elite” status more than even money does. Survey research shows that these new elites are radical-to-extremist…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

Special Report
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Polling the Elites
Scott Rasmussen and CtUP have surveyed a very specific population highly predisposed to hard progressivism. But this is still an important population, despite its being only approximately 1 percent of…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

Special Report
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: What Makes an Elite?
If WEIRD leftism is generated not by money but by the status-generating institutions of American life, this creates a problem for the Right. To obtain public office, positions in government…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

Special Report
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: The Elites and California Disease
Because of the outsize influence of the Golden State on American culture and the outsize influence of the presidency—especially the presidency of conservative Californian Ronald Reagan—on national politics, many think…
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

Special Report
On the Elites and Counter-Elites: Whither the Counter-Elite?
Whichever elite class resists the temptation of California Disease is going to have a big advantage in claiming the future.
by Michael Watson on June 19, 2024

Commentary
A Conversation with Economist Arnold Kling (Part 2 of 2)
MIT-trained economist Arnold Kling is a cerebral polymath who brings hands-on experience in government, a calm demeanor, and clearly expressed, reasonable thought to the public discourse. Kling was kind enough to…
by Michael E. Hartmann on June 12, 2024

Featured Items
Capital Research, March/April 2023
In the March/April 2023 issue of Capital Research, teachers unions push lower standards in public schools. Corporate media degenerates into a de facto Ministry of Truth. Labor builds ever-stronger ties…
by CRC Staff on May 4, 2023

Book Profile
Going Green for White Supremacy: Preserving the Frontier
Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

Book Profile
Going Green for White Supremacy: Scientific Racism on Display
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022

Book Profile
Going Green for White Supremacy: Eugenics Is Born
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 21, 2022