This week we’ll turn to the promise and perils of progress! Our perspective is, of course, inspired by the American Solidarity Party. Here’s the agenda.

What is progress? Toward what, where? What makes progress, “progressive”?
Life is a journey! Do we make the journey as pilgrims or as wanderers?
The philosopher Jacques Maritain claims that, at certain points of history, what prevails is a movement of degradation. At other times, it is a movement of progress. Do we find such a flux today? Let’s examine, in this light, a recent “year in review” op-ed, Nicholas Kristof, in the New York Times.

Is our search for “good politics” or “good economics” the search for something external to Christianity or does that search begin from within the Christian tradition?