1960s Reforms Are A Package

The author argues the 1960s brought a bundled shift—civil rights, affirmative action, mass immigration, second‑wave feminism, environmentalism, and a larger regulatory state—that jointly altered risk culture. Progress cannot be restored by pruning regulation alone because the bundle’s other elements drive attitudes toward risk, energy, and technology. — If true, growth policy becomes a culture‑and‑coalition problem, forcing debates about whether—and how—to unwind or offset multiple interlocked 1960s reforms.