Welcome to the Cato Institute institute. I am david boaz executive Vice President of the institute and its my honor today to be able to introduce and moderate this program. We hear a lot these days for the past few decades about moral decline in america, moral decline in the world. It covers a lot of different areas. Not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. Bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. Lots of radio talk shows have that is a common theme. Most days theres an oped in the Washington Times decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw recently that threequarters of americans think that we are in a period of moral decline. So it seems pretty convincing but there is an argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak up on the side of both moral progress and economic tangible progress in the world. As i point out in my own forthcoming book, the liber
Period of moral decline. So it seems convincing but there isnt argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak on this side of moral progress and economic, tangible progress in the world. As i point out in my own forthcoming book libertarian mind, we have seen a reduction in the world of war, slavery, violence of all kinds, we have seen a tendency toward individual rights, Economic Freedom and democracy, those are important elements of progress including moral progress. A new issue of cato policy report, the newsletter for kato sponsors includes a transcript of a speech given at this podium not long ago by stephen banker in which he says the world is Getting Better and better so why is everybody so pessimistic, he tries to understand why is why are people so pessimistic and the Cato Institute has created a web site called humanprogress. Org. Over 700 sets of data on this web site. Everything from child birth to womens rights to democracy t
Its not going to happen overnight but were suddenly moving in the right direction. Were goid to degrade and ultimately defeat isis. President obama enlists allied support in the battle against terrorists in iraq and syria. The Obama Administration now has ten other nato countries as part of an international antiisis coalition. In ukraine a ceasefire between separatist rebels and the government appears to be holding this morning. The agreement was announced by the president at the summit in wales. A airplane was forced to land in iran after an inspection and allowed to continue on. U. S. Fighter jets scrambling the pilot slumped at the controls. The plane crashed toward jamaica. Serena williams is dominating the u. S. Open. I feel bad but she absolutely deserves to be in the final against Serena Williams. Theyre on a collision course. All that across a traffic jam across the Golden Gate Bridge. No wornd whether they paid the tolls. And all that matters. Joined by eight Different Countri
Moving in the right direction. Were goid to degrade and ultimately defeat isis. President obama enlists allied support in the battle against terrorists in iraq and syria. The Obama Administration now has ten other nato countries as part of an international antiisis coalition. In ukraine a ceasefire between separatist rebels and the government appears to be holding this morning. The agreement was announced by the president at the summit in wales. A airplane was forced to land in iran after an inspection and allowed to continue on. U. S. Fighter jets scrambling the pilot slumped at the controls. The plane crashed toward jamaica. Serena williams is dominating the u. S. Open. I feel bad but she absolutely deserves to be in the final against Serena Williams. Theyre on a collision course. All that across a traffic jam across the Golden Gate Bridge. No wornd whether they paid the tolls. And all that matters. Joined by eight Different Countries including the u. S. How cool is it. On cbs this M
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