When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it’s just a bump on the road and that things will work out. President Barack Obama was fond of invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assertion that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Yet could we be wrong in assuming that, despite some backsliding here and there, forward movement is inexorable?
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Fareed Zakharia: We once trusted too much in inevitable progress and we got World War I
French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a photograph as he arrives in Albert, northern France on November 9, 2018, during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the World War I.
