Bestriding Our History

Triumph of The New because we have learned to design cars to be safer (government has played a part here), and partly because older people have transmitted to younger ones the knowledge that they need to drive more safely. People can learn, and so can societies.

Lindsey argues that that is what has happened in America generally over the past several decades. We have learned to temper the freedom that abundance granted us with a self-restraint that enables us in the long run to live lives that are fuller and more rewarding.

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

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Triumph of The New because we have learned to design cars to be safer (government has played a part here), and partly because older people have transmitted to younger ones the knowledge that they need to drive more safely. People can learn, and so can societies.

Lindsey argues that that is what has happened in America generally over the past several decades. We have learned to temper the freedom that abundance granted us with a self-restraint that enables us in the long run to live lives that are fuller and more rewarding.