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LIVE NOW: Historians estimate 20 million or more people died under Stalin's regime in the former USSR. @Princeton's Stephen Kotkin speaks about the horrors of communism. https://t.co/Whcx9iMeQV #CatoLectures
.@CatoInstitute's McLaughlin lecture featuring @Princeton's Stephen Kotkin is live. Tune in https://t.co/PCDK1kJZWL and join the conversation with #CatoLectures.
Tonight is the McLaughlin lecture @CatoInstitute featuring @Princeton's Stephen Kotkin. Can't attend in person? Tune in online at 6 pm https://t.co/PCDK1kJZWL. Join the conversation with #CatoLectures.
This Thursday is the McLaughlin lecture @CatoInstitute featuring Stephen Kotkin, John P. Birkelund ‘52 Professor in History and International Affairs at @Princeton, register today https://t.co/PCDK1kJZWL #CatoLectures
Register today for the upcoming McLaughlin Lecture @CatoInstitute on Nov. 1st. Stephen Kotkin will discuss Stalin’s Propaganda and Putin’s Information Wars. https://t.co/PCDK1kJZWL #CatoLectures
Watch @radleybalko and Tucker Carrington discuss their book "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South" @CatoInstitute https://t.co/K7r2iWLmBu #CatoLectures
That's my Rony! He likes reading a lot. He's always on my lap when I am correcting my students and wants to chase my mouse 😻#readers #CatoLectures #CatsOfTwitter #cats https://t.co/Jaa0Lou7ER
That concludes tonight's McLaughlin lecture with @sapinker. Missed the event? Watch the video on the @CatoInstitute Facebook page https://t.co/vgj6Y14PJr #CatoLectures
Secular democracies are the happiest and healthiest societies in human history, and they're the one most people select when they vote with their feet. — @sapinker https://t.co/9iQrhOyDmq #CatoLectures
"Progress is a fact ... It's reflected in the numbers," says @sapinker. See the numbers for yourself at https://t.co/VQRQaBFMWG, and follow @humanprogress. #CatoLectures #EnlightenmentNow @CatoEvents
Human progress is a FACT. It's not a matter of having a sunny disposition. It can be seen in the numbers. — @sapinker https://t.co/28IsEZBPp8 #CatoLectures
As countries get richer, they get happier, notes @sapinker. #CatoLectures #EnlightenmentNow @CatoEvents
Three weeks of paid vacation would have been inconceivable a hundred years ago, notes @sapinker. Leisure time has gone up by 8 hours a week just in the last 50 years. #CatoLectures #EnlightenmentNow @CatoEvents
Today, 80% of the world is literate, and 92% of people under 25 are — and that hold true for both girls & boys. — @sapinker https://t.co/NtuTPIpPG0 #CatoLectures
While inequality has increased in the U.S., poverty has not. The U.S. poverty rate since the 1970s has fallen from 30% to just 3%. — @sapinker #catolectures
.@sapinker cites @humanprogress data to show that, in the long view, democracy is more common and autocracy less common globally https://t.co/OZg6O5kUNR #CatoLectures #EnlightenmentNow @CatoEvents
If current trends continue, capitol punishment (the death penalty) will disappear from the world by 2026. — @sapinker https://t.co/NtuTPIpPG0 #CatoLectures
As recently as 1971, the world had only 31 democracies. By 1989, the world had 52 democracies. By the end of the Obama Presidency, 53% of the world's population lived in democracies. — @sapinker #catolectures
Even with the worst war in a generation — the Syrian Civil War — war-related deaths are at their lowest levels. — @sapinker #catolectures
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