That said, I can guess what I think the cult is given the context of the attacks on it (and markets, the individual, etc.). I assume the cult of progress includes those who favor stronger property rights and would employ cost-benefit and risk-benefit analyses to problems. Including environmental problems. Tomorrow is World Water Day – the lack of potable water in the developing world being one of the fetishes of the progress cult. It’s an enormous environmental problem and, dare I say it, an affront to the Almighty. Now, what does it say about cult of progress that those parts of the world where water is, relatively speaking, not an issue of serious environmental and humanitarian concern, are those areas where the cult of progress has taken its deepest hold?

More progress, please.