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The 28 Types of Progressives

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Or why it’s important not to conflate questions of value with questions of fact.

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images It’s been 234 years since the French Revolution, and our primary metaphor for categorizing people politically remains a reference to seating arrangements at the first National Assembly. Which is a bit odd. Of course, the “left to right” spatial metaphor has some timeless virtues. On many issues, there is a clear continuum between those who demand revolutionary change to achieve equality and those who counsel counterrevolutionary measures to preserve a hierarchy. But the schema also has some obvious problems. Political conflict is not unid

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