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Escaping the Progress Trap

Writer Ben Cobley talks to Alex about his new book, the Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History
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What if "progress" isn’t progress at all, but a trap? In this episode of Footsteps in Utopia, Alex takes on The Progress Trap by Ben Cobley, a book that skewers the modern Left’s claim to moral and historical authority. Far from marching forward, Cobley argues, we’re stuck in a loop where virtue-signalling replaces real debate, history is rewritten to s…

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