Science & Markets through their effects have lifted more people out of poverty than any other areas of human ingenuity.

You can’t be an anti-market or anti-scientific progressive. I know you may have been told that progressives can be that. But the word actually means something.

There’s nothing progressive about “my truth” if your truth contradicts reality to make you feel better. The soul who came up with Oral Rehydration Therapy was a progressive who saved the lives of countless poor people. A person demanding we deny biology is just a power tripper.

Any easy way to tell a false progressive is whether that person denies the main engines of progress: markets, STEM, law, high quality institutions.

You don’t get to fly direct to equality, fairness & justice by wishing yourself there & barking orders to comply backed by threats.

The hard part of being a progressive is the design of mechanism & incentives: how do we work with true human nature to get beautiful outcomes for society that can actually be reached.

Progressives aren’t utopian, because Utopian dreams always lead us backwards.
Be antiutopian.