Today`s progressives want to conserve democracy. Does that make them conservative?
(LA Times Books)

To the editor: Jonah Goldberg is skeptical about a thought-provoking theory that someone´s genetics play a role in determining that person´s political predilections. Like many of my contemporaries in the 1960s and ´70s, I was first influenced by my family´s political leanings until I left home,...