Ping.........
Levin hits it out of the park.
This is an excellent explanation of what Progressivism is, and how it was conceived and promoted.
Superb.
All of Progressivism is based on lying and manipulation of the people by the elite.
My understanding of Croly aligns with the leftist historian, Eldon J. Eisenach, who wrote, “The Lost Promise of Progressivism,” 1994 (a stupendously sad title! or maybe one to celebrate, were it really “lost”...), concluding that Croly’s work was itself a “synthesis” and “derivative” of older doctrines.
Croly interpreted his times but did not create them. TR made him famous.
See here from “Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism” published by Heritage:
“The primacy of executive power was not original with Croly; philosophically, he borrowed it from Woodrow Wilson, and in practical politics, he borrowed it from the example set by Theodore Roosevelt. What Croly added was to place the concentration of power in the broader context of the complete reordering of the American regime and not merely a tinkering with institutions.”
Lots more in that article: https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/herbert-d-croly-apostle-progressivism)
This is where the WAR should be fought.
Sadly, conservative Christians are compromising their historically well founded beliefs and positions in order to “Just get along”.
I just read “Not a Day Care” by Dr. Everett Piper
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Day-Care-Devastating-Consequences/dp/1621576051
It contains many of what we Conservatives already know about the post-modernism on college campuses and he address these issues with a solution. A return to the Christ centered discovery of truth that was the basis for the founding of most of these Universities to begin with.
While Dr. Piper provides the solution, he doesn’t provide the mechanisms to get there. Many of us know what needs to be done, but we don’t know how.
This book could have been a collection of news stories and blog sites recording what is happening to our youth in college, with an obligatory recognition of reestablishing objective morality and I would have been disappointed.
Dr. Piper goes much further and I commend him for that.
In any case, it’s worth a read and I would highly recommend this book to parents and their kids as they send them off to the indoctrination camps we now call “Higher Learning”.