Darwin: Scientist but Not Economist

By Mike Lux
Posted: 04/ 5/2012 12:45 pm<

I wrote a book that came out in early 2009 called, The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be, that talked about the history of the American political debate. One of my fundamental arguments was that conservatives are using the same arguments against modern day progress that their ideological ancestors used against the progress we made throughout history. What I underestimated, though, is how fiercely and broadly the modern conservative movement is trying not only to block advances in progress, but to actually roll back the gains of our history. Things that had seemed long settled only a few years back when I wrote that book are now being fought over anew, and not by trivial people on the fringes of our politics but by most of the leaders in the Republican Party.