April 1, 2020
Coronavirus Creates an Opening for Progressivism — Also Barbarism
New York Magazine, April 1, 2020
Coronavirus Creates an Opening for Progressivism — Also Barbarism
As the UC Irvine legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran writes for The American Prospect, the coronavirus has conspicuously affirmed some of the progressive movement’s core premises: among them that “our actions affect other people even when we aren’t aware,” that the imperatives of economic growth can conflict with the general welfare, and that we are perfectly capable of rapidly reordering society to subordinate GDP growth to human needs. Baradaran’s litany is worthy of expansion and elaboration …