How Progressives Are Retrogressive

How Progressives Are Retrogressive
A woman holds a placard reading "white privilege" during a demonstration in Barcelona, Spain, on June 14, 2020. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images
Philip Carl Salzman
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How often do we hear political commentators and Republican officials use the terms “liberal” and “progressive” interchangeably when discussing Democrats? Yet the meanings of the two terms could not be more different.

Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
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Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
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