Nor is it a Marxist historical inevitability, devoid of man's bumbling or heroics.

FORBES: THE HUMAN ROLE

That is, we libertarian utopianists assumed a kind of historical inevitability in our vision of the world's steady march toward science, technology, information, freedom and capitalism.

FORBES: Digital Rules

Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.

NEWYORKER: Evening the Odds