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	Podcast:		Current Affairs
	Episode:		“Progress” Is Making Things Worse (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:41:37
	Publish Date:		2026-05-05 23:36:11
	Description:		Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Sam Miller McDonald is a writer and longtime Current Affairs contributor. He joins Nathan Robinson to discuss his new book Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization—and Now Threatens to Destroy It, a sweeping critique of the belief that history is a story of constant improvement. Buy Sam's book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250278319/progress/ Read Sam's articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/author/samuel-miller-mcdonald 0:00-8:30 critiquing the Pinker-style narrative of progress 8:30-19:43 “progress” as destruction: industrialization and ecological collapse 19:43-23:34 what actually constitutes wellbeing 23:34-30:15 why the idea of “progress” is misleading 30:15-36:42 how “progress” justifies violence (Nazism, colonialism) 36:42-41:37 imagining values beyond “progress”
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