The Greatest Victory for Liberty This Decade?
Posted in Sweet on Apr 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
We like to draw attention to the problems that exist in our country today, yet we live in a remarkably wealthy, peaceful and free society.
Steven Pinker writes in the New Republic, for example, that horrifying violence used to be commonplace:
Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor-saving device, conquest [...]
