On this week’s episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Marian Tupy, the co-author of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, about why, in the big picture, things are much better economically than they ever have been, and why that could continue indefinitely if we don’t screw it up (which we might).
Among the topics we discussed were whether Americans are richer than medieval peasants; why it is easier to buy a vacuum cleaner now than it used to be; why Tupy believes that a bigger population is not only Not Bad but Actively Good; whether statist conservatives have a point when they complain about free markets; if environmentalism is a religion; and why cancel culture threatens the economy.
I also explained why I was so embarrassed by this year’s State of the Union address.
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