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Meaning and Morality in the Modern Age
Steven Pinker joins Marian Tupy to discuss the so-called "crisis of meaning," the decline of religion, and what can give life purpose in a modern…
 • Marian L Tupy
Doomslayer: Progress Roundup
Child mortality has fallen 60 percent since 1990.
 • Malcolm Cochran
The Most Important Check in Economics
The Simon–Ehrlich wager and why predictions of resource scarcity keep getting it wrong.
 • Marian L Tupy and Gale Pooley
Why HAL 9000 Was Afraid to Die and Real AIs Aren’t
Intelligence does not imply dominance.
 • Maarten Boudry
Doomslayer: Progress Roundup
More farmers are planting GM crops, dogs are biting less in India, the largest HPV vaccination program in history, and more.
 • Malcolm Cochran
Olive Oil Prices Are Falling—So Should Olive Oil Climate Hysteria
Climate alarmists jump to hasty conclusions, then fail to correct the record.
 • Human Progress
Ice Blocks to Electrons: The Rise of Refrigeration Abundance
Workers today get 214 refrigerators for the time price of one in 1925.
 • Gale Pooley
Doomslayer: Progress Roundup
Deregulation in South Africa, a new sodium-cooled nuclear reactor, $100 genome sequencing, and more.
 • Malcolm Cochran
The Grim Truth About the “Good Old Days”
Preindustrial life wasn’t simple or serene—it was filthy, violent, and short.
 • Chelsea Olivia Follett
A Vindication of Bjorn Lomborg
Lomborg’s experience shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers.
 • Marian L Tupy
Doomslayer: Progress Roundup
Fewer Americans are working at night, sugar demand is falling, and oil companies are drilling more with less.
 • Malcolm Cochran
Discontent in the Age of Plenty
Brink Lindsey explores why unprecedented prosperity has failed to deliver widespread meaning.
 • Marian L Tupy
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