Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Connors Institute at Shippensburg University!
Since this Utterly Moderate episode is both our Christmas program and our 100th PODCAST EPISODE, we thought we would try to be as uplifting as possible.
In that spirit, we are being joined by Johan Norberg, author of a number of books including Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future.
In that book, Norberg presents extensive data documenting how the world has gotten much better over the centuries across several measures, including freedom, life expectancy, poverty, violence, hunger, sanitation, the environment, literacy, and more.
The book helps us not only to avoid being so doom and gloom about the state of the world, but to identify the reasons why we have made so much progress in the first place, avoid derailing those efforts, and help us build on them for a better tomorrow.
Enjoy this conversation, and very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
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Episode Audio:
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"Air Background Corporate" by REDCVT (Free Music Archive)
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"Please Listen Carefully" by Jahzzar (Free Music Archive)
- "Remedy for Melancholy" by Kai Engel (Free Music Archive)
- "Silent Night" by Piper Kull (used with artist's permission)
- "O Holy Night" by Piper Kull (used with artist's permission)
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