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8 unusual facts about progressivism


Clarence Smedley Thomas

Clarence Smedley Thomas was a Progressive who founded the American Defense Society.

Gloria Totten

Gloria Totten is the president of Progressive Majority, an American political organization that works to elect progressive political candidates at the state and local levels.

Hari Singh Gour

Gour was not only a progressive scholar; he demonstrated such forward thinking in his personal life as well.

Herman Lee Donovan

At Columbia University Donovan was firmly schooled in the educational idea of Progressivism, and later he headed Eastern Kentucky Normal School (now called Eastern Kentucky University) from 1928 to 1941 in Richmond, Kentucky, before being called to head UK.

Jean Bricmont

Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes.

Philippe Hamel

Philippe Hamel (October 12, 1884 – January 22, 1954) was a nationalist and progressive politician in Quebec, Canada.

Steady Brook

Steady Brook is a progressive 'green community', encouraging re-cycling and composting, and limited use of cosmetic pesticides.

The True Patriot Network

The organization aims to connect other progressive Americans, who are interested in changing politics and culture.


Adolph Diesterweg

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (born October 29, 1790 in Siegen, died July 7, 1866 in Berlin) was a German educator and thinker who, also a progressive liberal politician, campaigned for the secularization of schools, and is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy.

Ahlehadeeth Movement Bangladesh

Through implementation of the aforesaid aims, objectives and principles, it wants "to establish such an Islamic society, where there shall be appeared no heterogeneous isms in the name of progressiveness, nor any Mazhabi parochialism in the name of Islam".

Arthur S. Link

Secondly he located the heart of progressivism in Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism platform of 1912, and not in Wilson's New Freedom.

Century Institute

Its faculty has included many late 20th Century progressivism, including Prof. William Julius Wilson, activist Todd Gitlin, academic Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and UN official Gillian Martin Sorensen and her husband, John F. Kennedy advisor and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen.

Citizens Action for Southern New Hampshire

Citizens Action for Southern New Hampshire, also known as "CASNH" (pronounced "cash" or "cas-nitch"), was a group of local progressive activists from the Nashua, New Hampshire area formed around the Nashua Democracy for America meetup in December 2004.

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh

He started out as an important poet, being published in the first three volumes of Tar Saptak, series of anthologies (1943), which marked a transition in Hindi literature, from the prevalent Chhayavaad movement; this led to the initiation of Prayogvaad Experimentalism in Hindi poetry, and developing along with Pragativaad Progressivism, eventually led to the creation of the 'Nayi Kahani' (New Story) movement, Modernism .

Gauche caviar

The dictionary Petit Larousse defines "left caviar" as a pejorative expression for a "Progressivism combined with a taste for society life and its accoutrements".

History of MSNBC: 2008–present

David Sirota is a progressive commentator who has made guest appearances on many television shows.

League of Free Liberals

In 1894 the conflict between the progressive and conservative tendencies heated over the proposed relaxation of the census.

Louis B. Brodsky

Louis B. Brodsky was a magistrate in The Tombs court in New York City who made a progressive ruling regarding dancers and nudity in April 1935.

Micheline Montreuil

Jack Layton, leader of the party, commented favourably on her candidacy, saying that he was pleased with her candidacy and that having candidates who could raise questions of equality showed that the NDP was quite open and that Quebecers were progressive enough to accept differences.

Rock and the Pop Narcotic

Carducci's tendency was directly counter to the politically progressive and relatively mainstream attitude of such writers as Dave Marsh or Greil Marcus, neither of whom answered the charges Carducci made against them (of ignoring quality music for political reasons).

Rousas John Rushdoony

He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in three works: Intellectual Schizophrenia (a general and concise study of education), The Messianic Character of American Education (a history and castigation of public education in the U.S.), and The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum (a parent-oriented pedagogical statement).

Union for Europe of the Nations–European Alliance

The Union for Europe of the Nations – European Alliance (UEN–EA) is a formerly regionalist-progressive, but now national conservative political group in the European Union's Committee of Regions.

William Henry Fry

Fry's other works, including Leonora (New York debut in 1858) and Notre-Dame of Paris (1864, Philadelphia), received mixed reviews along partisan lines: conservatives tended to dislike Fry's music, whereas political progressives highly enjoyed it.


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