Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now

Harvard FAS

An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether self-described as liberals or as leftists. What should they propose, now that they no longer believe in the usefulness of governmental direction of the economy or in the sufficiency of redistributive social programs? A basic concern is the relation of programmatic thought to the understanding of change and constraint.In the recent historical period, progressives have sought to humanize the established order rather than to…