Against Activist Mission Creep
When organizations take positions on issues beyond their remit, they make it harder to build big tents around their own issues.
Jeremiah Johnson is the Policy Director at the Center for New Liberalism and the host of the Neoliberal Podcast.
When organizations take positions on issues beyond their remit, they make it harder to build big tents around their own issues.
In November 2006, Superior Court Judge Peter Busch upheld a preliminary injunction against the city of San Francisco, preventing them from moving forward with their plan to build new bike lanes and bike infrastructure. Busch ruled that the city hadn’t properly followed the environmental review process mandated by the
There are a great number of libertarians who abhor bigotry of all kinds—racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. But libertarianism as a party and as a movement has always been vulnerable to extremists and bad actors. Influential thinkers like Murray Rothbard flirted with white supremacy and racist ideas, while Hans
American liberalism is in crisis. The conservative movement in the US has turned against small-L liberalism and small-D democratic values, and America’s future as a liberal democracy is in question. To make matters worse, the alliance of progressives, social democrats and liberal moderates that make up the Democratic Party