Seems appropriate today…
August 28, 2010
August 28, 2010
Progressives Against Progress
The environmentalist agenda as a kind of aristocratic paternalism at odds with growth, prosperity, and “progress”? You don’t say! Fred Siegel, City Journal: Like the Tory Radicals, today’s liberal gentry see the untamed middle classes as the true enemy. “Environmentalism offered the extraordinary opportunity to combine the qualities of virtue and selfishness,” wrote William Tucker in a groundbreaking 1977 Harper’s article on the opposition to construction of the Storm King