Progressives Argue In The Name Of Good, With No Details

[From article] Progressiv When so much of progressive argument consists of scrappy anecdotes or soaring rhetoric, it isn’t cynicism to inquire where all this forward-thinking is actually going.
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For New York City’s progressives, however, it’s the thought that counts. All sins of logic or arithmetic—whether in the realms of children’s laundry or $50 million luxury apartment sales—are covered by the appeal to reducing inequality.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1205sb.html

SETH BARRON
In the Name of Progress
New York City progressives like rhetoric, not details.
5 December
 2014