2019: Best Year Ever?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 31, 2019

Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times and the author (with Sheryl WuDunn) of the forthcoming Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (Knopf, 2020), argues that contrary to how people may feel, 2019 was actually one of the best years ever for humans, in terms of health, literacy and suffering.

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