{"id":11553,"date":"2010-06-03T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/the-essence-of-progressivism\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T16:54:55","slug":"the-essence-of-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/the-essence-of-progressivism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of Progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From George F. Will, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/article.aspx?headline=George+Will%3a+The+limits+of+the+welfare+state&amp;articleId=961c1569-624b-4231-967d-5b8184c80abd\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Limits of the Welfare State<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Lack of &quot;a limiting principle&quot; is the essence of progressivism, according to William Voegeli, contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, in his new book &quot;Never Enough: America&#39;s Limitless Welfare State.&quot; The Founders, he writes, believed that free government&#39;s purpose, and the threats to it, is found in nature. The threats are desires for untrammeled power, desires which, Madison said, are &quot;sown in the nature of man.&quot; Government&#39;s limited purpose is to protect the exercise of natural rights that pre-exist government, rights that human reason can ascertain in unchanging principles of conduct and that are essential to the pursuit of happiness. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">An excellent article.&#0160; Read it all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From George F. Will, The Limits of the Welfare State: Lack of &quot;a limiting principle&quot; is the essence of progressivism, according to William Voegeli, contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books, in his new book &quot;Never Enough: America&#39;s Limitless Welfare State.&quot; The Founders, he writes, believed that free government&#39;s purpose, and the threats to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/the-essence-of-progressivism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Essence of Progressivism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}