I wish to thank Dr. Katherine Trebeck and Dr. Dirk Philipsen for their response to our lead essay. It is a pleasure to discuss important ideas with scholars who are searching for the truth and human betterment. Trebeck and Philipsen question “the human ability to invent itself out of the basic laws of physics” and call for “A Wellbeing Economy [that] positions the economy in service of human flourishing and true freedom; less precariousness and more dignity; fewer dirty industries and more businesses who put their workers and communities front and center.”
I agree that humanity still faces many problems, but I ask, along with the British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, “On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us.”[1] Below, I outline a number of ways in which the world has become a better place over the last few decades and propose that many people are already living in a Wellbeing Econ
No One Sets Out to Be Like Venezuela
by Ethan Andrews Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:51 AM Signs in downtown Belfast on January 10, where Black Lives Matter and anti-mask protesters have held weekly rallies (Photos: Ethan Andrews) Sometime in the early aughts, maybe 2003, I traveled to Washington, D.C., for a protest against the Iraq War. As the march passed the White House, I remember looking up a side driveway to the building where the president lives and works and thinking that instead of walking around on the street, wouldn’t it be more effective to take our big peaceful crowd up there and have a word with the folks in charge?
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After the riot at the US Capitol, fear lingers about what could happen in the future, given how far President Trump, his congressional allies, and his supporters were willing to go to attempt to stay in power.