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Progress

  • Issue 57
  • Spring 2025
“Only through the death of the old have new lineages achieved victory. [The worker] confronts violence with the sharp arrow of knowledge. With the weighty hammer of logic he drives a wedge into everything. Following eternal laws, he must be victorious in this fight, and thus he will liberate himself, the Prometheus of our time.”
— Eduard Fuchs, “The Prometheus of Our Time,” 1892

“More gender equality may have been achieved over the last several decades than progressives tend to think.”

Features

Jeremy Freeman

Can We Engineer a Livable Future?

Some scientists think we should slow climate change through carbon capture and solar geoengineering. Is that a gamble worth taking?

Jennifer C. Pan

Clocking Out of the Second Shift

The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?

Interview with Göran Therborn

The Age of Regression

Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.

Branko Milanović

What Comes After Globalization?

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”

Front Matters

The Soapbox

Letters + The Internet Speaks

Party Lines

Samuel Farber

In Defense of Progress

Dossier

Struggle Session

Lauren Fadiman

Waves of the Future

“The real source of solarpunk’s inspiration, just like cyberpunk, is East Asia.”

Cultural Capital

Reading Materiel

Adaner Usman

Pinker’s Progress

Progress Report

Bellamy and Morris’s Dueling Utopias

Bass & Superstructure

Owen Hatherley

A Soundtrack for Progress

Stop the Music!

Red Channels

Hannah Proctor

Welcome to Everytown

A Century of Stealing Fire

Ways of Seeing

Owen Hatherley

A City Built for Sunshine

Veni, Vidi, Vici

“Twenty-five miles long and six miles wide, the Gaza Strip now has the world’s largest population of child amputees.”

The International

Americas

Aidan Simardone

Greenland Is Not for Sale

Guyana’s Blessing and Curse

Europe

Ingrid Dunér

Eugenics and the Welfare State

Make Europe Productive Again

Mena

Ben Burgis

Donald Trump in Palestine

Syria’s Revolution

Africa

William Shoki

Musk Looks to the Motherland

Niger’s Uranium

Asia

Omar Hamed Beato

“We Didn’t Have Anywhere to Go”

Build, Baby, Build!

“As we’re quickly learning, the results of this reactionary futurism are chaotic at best.”

The Tumbrel

Girondins

Branko Marcetic

That Hopey, Changey Stuff

On Brands, Plan B, and Rome Burning

Thermidor

Maya Vinokour

Donald Trump’s Reactionary Futurism

How Much Is $TRUMP Worth?

On Lex, Rex, and the X-Men

Versailles

Ben Fong

Turn On, Tune In, Cash Out

On Diablo IV, Dark Power, and Chill, Normal Dudes

A Strange Sort of Populism

“We urgently need to counter the idea that workers suddenly have no federally protected organizing rights.”

Leftovers

The Vulgar Empiricist

David Calnitsky

The Politics of Life and Death

The Dustbin

Orlando Reade

John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mourned a Revolution Betrayed

Aliens Are Probably Communists

Popular Front

Eric Blanc

Stopping Donald Trump’s Anti-Union Offensive

Hope Springs Eternal

Means & Ends

Protocols for a Better Magazine