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Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

The Political Orphanage

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The Fallacy of Environmental Restrictions

No one knew whether environmentalism was going to go left or right up until about Gore. "There's nothing about the environment that is inherently something on the progressive side or the conservative side," he says. If you're restricting carbon emissions, who is that going to hurt most? The poor, right? He adds: Any set of policies can be wrapped in any story astrology-wise and they're doing that.

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