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Life itself, health, sustenance, prosperity, peace, freedom, safety, knowledge, pleasure, happiness—all of these can be measured. If they have increased over time, that is progress. | Steven Pinker
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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