1. Grand Narrative: What madeand keptthe pace of economic transformation and creative destruction so much greater in the long 20th century than before?
2. Really-Existing Socialism: Lenin and company seized power in 1917 with enormously optimistic utopian hopes. What do you think are the main reasons their hopes were so completely disappointed?
3. Cold War: The Cold War might well have ended in thermonuclear catastrophe. But, given that it did not, do you think it was on net a source or an obstacle to human progress in the years 1945-1990?
4. Inclusion: How significant have been the reductions in the mechanisms of exclusiondiscrimination by gender, ethnicity, race, class, and so onacross the span of the long 20th century?
5. The Neoliberal Turn: What, in your view, were the most important reasons that the global north took the Neoliberal Turn after 1980?
6. Information Technology: Except for the decade 1995-2005, measured technological advance in the information-technology age has been markedly slower than it was from 1870-1980. Do you think this is a true slowdown, or do you see this as a result of our difficulties in measuring economic growth as the world shifts from a commodity to an attention economy?