The more backward the social situation, the more likely it is that there is a net social gain by removing large and certain hazards even at the cost of creating new and smaller ones.
The point is that Trump and company aren't just trying to move us backward on social issues; they're also trying to block technological progress.
While the Trump era may involve egregious steps backward in social justice, economic justice, human rights, and democracy itself, America is resilient and our young people will lead us to bend the arc of history back toward justice.
If we are seen as being defined by backward-looking social attitudes we will be seen as unacceptable and unelectable".
The writer tells about her teen-age years, when she was a shy, backward anti-social kid living on a farm near Mayfield, Kentucky, 150 miles from the nearest city, Nashville.
The New Yorker, May 26 , 1986P. 30 The writer tells about her teen-age years, when she was a shy, backward anti-social kid living on a farm near Mayfield, Kentucky, 150 miles from the nearest city, Nashville.
By Bobbie Ann Mason The New Yorker, May 26 , 1986P. 30 The writer tells about her teen-age years, when she was a shy, backward anti-social kid living on a farm near Mayfield, Kentucky, 150 miles from the nearest city, Nashville.
To do so, Republicans would have to offer something beyond the "government is bad" mantra that alienates many of these potential constituents, an economic program more credible than trickle-down tax cuts, and backward-looking social policies.
Yuval Levin has it exactly backward; means-testing Social Security and Medicare is the worst possible plan.
Alabamians are not unnaturally backward in their social attitudes: they want tolerance, good schooling and good jobs.
