The idea of progress has been central to the Left since its inception. From the French Revolution on, the task was nothing ...

A self-styled optimist, Carr believes that the idea of progress is necessary to answer his title question. History turns into theology when the meaning of the past depends on “some extra ...

“That helps us read the traces of a once ordered past—this idea of progress in a landscape that seems like it’s only ruins and loss,” he says. Her photos capture a sense of “shared ...

Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s ...

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