Further context for that quote (from 1993): "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked wit

Further context for that quote (from 1993): "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." So how much you agree with the applicability of the quote might depend on whether, say, you think the education and race relations in 1993 were better or worse than they were in 1963.