Why the Age of American Progress Ended - The Atlantic

Invention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 47:03 Updated 12:45 p.m. ET on February 6, 2023 This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. The Scourge of All Humankind If you were , for whatever macabre reason, seeking the most catastrophic moment in the history of humankind, you might well settle on this: About 10,000 years ago, as people first began to domesticate animals and farm the land in Mesopotamia, India, and northern Africa, a peculiar virus leaped across the species b

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