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The Progress Movement: Origins, Momentum and Opportunities by Jason Crawford

Ayn Rand Institute Live!

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The History of Progress - The Core Ideas of the Enlightenment

A number of people have been looking to the history of progress, as I said earlier, as the validation of the core ideas of the Enlightenment. But if you buy into the declinist narrative, then there's a note that we should just burn it all down and become very nihilistic," he says. A conviction that progress is real and important both historically and also in the future "is something that can continue"

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