Progressivism and The Successor Ideology

Progressivism seems to have both changed radically, with new understandings of identity and racism, and grown in influence. New initiatives in corporate HR departments, public school systems, and federal agencies now challenge hitherto widespread assumptions about the justice of colorblind law and freedom of speech. Is this a new ideology, and if so, what is its structure, and how did it rise in power so quickly? Author Wesley Yang discusses his analysis of this remarkable inflection point in American politics with SPA professor G. Borden Flanagan

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Wesley Yang is the author of The Souls of Yellow Folk, selected as a notable book of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, and one of the best books of the year by The Spectator and Publisher's Weekly. Yang is a columnist for Tablet Magazine and a contributing editor for Esquire. His substack devoted to investigation of the "Successor Ideology" is called Year Zero.