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After all, peer progressives have a very clear set of values that draw upon the older tradition of progressive politics. They believe in equality, participation, diversity. There’s nothing laissez-faire about their agenda for progress.

The peer-progressive response differs from both these approaches. Instead of turning a blind eye to market failures, it assumes that these problems are widespread, and actively seeks them out as the central focus of its agenda. Instead of building a large government agency to combat the problem, it tries to build a peer network around it, a system

Rather than seeking to distinguish “real” from “supposed” evangelicals, then, it is more useful to think in terms of the degree to which individuals participate in this evangelical culture of consumption.

We are the same people that we were even a couple of thousand years ago. This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we’re all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!). Some on the New Right would posit that we were smart then and that we’ve being going down the wrong road for quite a long time. Then there’s

Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements.

An applied postmodern mind-set says: “The West has constructed the idea that rationality and science are good in order to perpetuate its own power and marginalize nonrational, nonscientific forms of knowledge production from elsewhere. Therefore, we must now devalue white, Western ways of knowing for belonging to white Westerners and promote Easter

Entrepreneurial innovations, those undertaken by lone individuals, looked like they would be permanently marginalized. If you were smart enough and wanted to make a difference through technology, the corporate labs were where you had to be. The nineteenth century was the century of entrepreneurial tinkerers and lone scientists; the twentieth was th