at any time. Freedom? A far greater percentage of the world’s population live in free societies than ever before. Literacy? A few hundred years ago, only a small minority could read and write. Now, ninety percent of young people around the world are literate. Safety? We’re safer than ever before in countless ways. Just to choose one metric, we’re more than ninety percent less likely to be killed in a car accident than we were in the fifties or sixties.”
