Lovett C. Peters Lecture

This event is free to Pioneer Institute members. To become joining Pioneer at the Membership level, please click here or contact Lauren Corvese (lcorvese@pioneerinstitute.org) or 617-723-2277 ext. 202. Terror, catastrophe, disease, war, and natural disaster—we all see these headlines daily. So often, one comes away feeling that the world is in crisis. There are, of course, crises and calamities that deserve our attention; but they should not blind us to the abundant empirical evidence of global progress. As a foremost public intellectual will demonstrate, the data in 2018 are clear: across most every measure and all parts of the world, people are living longer, healthier, happier, and more prosperous lives. To what should we attribute these tangible improvements in the […]