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Ben Cobley
Ben Cobley is a writer and journalist specialising in progressivism and identity politics.
His first book, The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity (2018) examined contemporary diversity as a system of conformity, including some groups while excluding others, notably the white working class.
His latest, The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History, explores the idea of progress as a tool of domination and colonisation, grabbing authority based on apparent knowledge of history and the future.
Ben is a former Labour Party member and lives in London.
Events
Progressive Agendas
25 June 2025
Progress is one of the animating concepts of our civilisation. Do things “only get better”?
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The Progress Trap : The Modern Left and the False Authority of History by Ben Cobley
The Progress Trap’ is a meditation on the sinister consequences of the progressive way of being: for ourselves, for our democracy, for our art and for the pursuit of real knowledge.
£25.00