@humanprogress

Leftists refer to people like Maduro & Castro as "Presidents," but people like Stroessner & Pinochet as "Dictators."

In the 1930s, pessimists feared that radios were a threat to democracy & worried that they were ruining childhood

More food is being produced around the world and the energy to produce it has become greener http://buff.ly/23OCVym

"The rich got richer, true. But..." -@DeirdreMcClosk http://buff.ly/1R1qyYw

"Today, children in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely..."—Prof. Angus Deaton: http://buff.ly/1slhxWn

The free market encourages empathy and decreases violence, according to @sapinker. http://buff.ly/27kWTW8 #progress

One megabyte of memory cost $2.6 billion in 1957. It's worth less than a cent these days. http://buff.ly/1TbfGvz

Thanks to greater economic freedom, Singapore's average income is now higher than France's. http://buff.ly/1WksdRi

Capitalism works, corporatism does not. http://buff.ly/1Lm8EjD

Scandinavia is, by one measure, a freer market than the U.S., despite what Sanders says. https://t.co/OXkXfT2Cpl