Robert Godwin, a.k.a. Gagdad Bob, is proprietor of a thought—provoking (and I confess occasionally perplexing to me) website called One Cosmos. He is unfailingly literate and provocative, and offers perspectives informed by an extraordinary set of intellectual tools.

Today, he takes on "progressives" and "conservatives" and supplies, as usual, some great insights.

In a sense, progressivism is deeply ahistorical, for it merely examines the now, pronounces that it does not like the now, and proposes radical policies to change the character of the now. And this is why the policies so frequently end in disaster, for as Thomas Sowell has written, they never take the time to 'think beyond stage one' and calculate the actual effect of their policies. [....]

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