Progressives against progress
The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism City Journal makes the case that the environmental movement, with its implied assumptions that progress and science is suspect and back-to-nature always laudable, caused a shift in liberalism from its original optimism to endless forecasts of doom. It also led to elitism and then a subsequent loss [...]
Categories: Politics Tags: american liberalism, gentry, industrial economy, progress, Progressives, Society, storm king, Tory, true enemy, william tucker
Barclays, Final Round: Laird Keeping Things Interesting With Subpar Sunday
Through two holes of his final round, Martin Laird was two under, pushing his Barclays-leading total to -14. It looked as if he were on pace to cruise through Sunday's action and pick up a victory. Well, funny thing--Laird doubled the third and bogey...
Categories: Media Tags: Barclays, live leaderboard, martin laird, pace, progress, round, score, Steve Stricker, subpar, victory
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day: Ratify CEDAW
By Emily J. Martin, Vice President and General Counsel, National Women's Law Center Much like the Nineteenth Amendment itself these days, Women's Equality Day-the anniversary of the amendment's ratification-keeps a fairly low profile, sneaking in at th...
Categories: Politics Tags: Anniversary, discrimination against women, federal guarantee, Law, nineteenth, nineteenth amendment, ninetieth anniversary, power grab, progress, vote
Latest Weapon In War Against Concussions: The Wii Fit?
Video game site Kotaku shared an interesting tidbit yesterday that some universities--namely Maryland and Ohio State--have begun using the Wii Fit as a way to track athletes' progress returning from concussions: "The athletes love it because what we...
Categories: Media Tags: balance tests, concussion, director, florida quarterback, fun, game, progress, tim tebow, Wii, wii fit video
Derrick Crowe: Petraeus’ Oily Spin About Progress in Afghanistan
There is virtually no data that shows strategically significant security "progress" in Afghanistan since the start of the latest escalation.
Categories: World Tags: cbs evening news, cbs evening news with katie couric, gen petraeus, General Petraeus, insurgent, international security assistance, Marjah, number, oil, progress
David Mixner: HIV/AIDS: The Best of Times and the Worst of Times
Over the past three decades, HIV/AIDS has had a way of taunting us with progress and then reminding us of its immense devastation. Even in...
Categories: World Tags: AIDS, aids drug assistance program, david mixner, hiv research, hiv strains, international aids conference, News, pressure, progress, treatment
Derrick Crowe: Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on Afghanistan War…Again
Sign our act.ly petition to tell the next journalists on Petraeus' media tour to ask tough questions and expose his effort to extend the...
Categories: World Tags: afghanistan war, doing sit ups, effort, hook line and sinker, line, mainstream, military, progress, sheepish grin, time magazine cover
Hisham Wyne: Dear Dubai, How About a Loyalty Scheme for Entreprenuers?
Imagine, for a minute, the possibility of a loyalty scheme where entrepreneurial activity would be rewarded in ways that could be redeemed to further business and creative goals.
Categories: World Tags: content producers, creation, creative currency, Emirati, form, loyalty scheme, medium sized businesses, progress, scheme, start ups
Jon Foreman: The Economy of the Garden — Part One
My wife and I planted a garden this year. This tiny patch of dirt has become a space where small miracles occur daily. The slow and steady growth of the garden contradicts almost everything about our fast-paced world.
Categories: World Tags: cell, connection, everything, fast paced world, freeway traffic, Garden, progress, religious tales, slower than a snail, small miracles
Steve Clemons: Israel/Palestine and Iran: Linkage Should be Hard Wired by Obama Team
Barack Obama is occasionally photographed carrying a weighty and important book around with him. One of those books -- which he seemed to carry...
Categories: World Tags: brilliant leadership, fareed zakaria, mess, national security problems, new america foundation, progress, security, state, Steve Clemons, West