Is Human History Really a Story of Progress, or One of Failure?

In his next book “What’s Wrong with the Right Side of History,”  historian Lee Harris explains how progressives’ faith in the future has made them wrong about the present.

• 00:51: Harris’ books include “Next American Civil War”
• 02:23 Lee Harris, author and historian
• 02:39: New book: What’s Wrong with the Right Side of History
• 05:10 The origins of the idea of progress in history
• 08:47 The idea the future will be better starts with progressivism
• 09:15: 19th and 20th century visions of the future
• 10:00 Faith in the future and belief humans could be perfected
• 10:51 For Marx faith in the future replaced faith in God
• 17:31 The origins and evolution of American progressivism
• 18:13 20th century Progressives pushed eugenics
• 19:45 “Progress” used to justify Communism and Nazism
• 22:01 Modern progressives ran out of good ideas
• 25:27 Harris discovers ideas in the process of writing
• 30:00 American history, conspiracy theories, and freedom

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