Progress Without Heroes

What if hard-won social victories are more inevitable than they appear?

For the past few weeks here at Wisdom of Crowds, we have been wrestling with the question of social change. Especially in the shadow of the January 6 hearings and the Dobbs ruling, among all the recent hand-wringing about how democracy is in serious decay in the United States, I can’t shake the feeling that we are making all sorts of category errors in …