This is, without a doubt, one of the best times to be alive. We live longer. We’re subject to less violence. We live in cleaner, more prosperous cities, and enjoy more civil and individual freedoms than any generation before us. Innovations have brought us closer together and shed our prejudices. Young men now take up video game controllers in their homes rather than firearms in foreign wars. Women outnumber men at universities and climb corporate hierarchies at unprecedented speed. Poverty has been all but eradicated for billions of people on the Earth. As Swedish author Johan Norberg outlines in his […]