Tony Morley, August 26th, 2025 Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, “Breakfast for Eight Billion,” How we fed the world, Charles C. Mann, an excerpt from The New Atlantis and commentary. If you're new here, we report on the past, present, and future
Tony Morley, August 7th, 2025 ‘Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,’ and factories help poor countries develop, and their people prosper. This week, Noah Smith dropped a hot take on the Sydney Sweeney controversy and why the spiral into her ad being a glorification of the fruits of sweatshop labour is
Tony Morley, July 27th, 2025 This op-ed was published in an edited edition by the National Review, on July 25th, 2025. The unabridged is contained herein: If you'd like to support our work, please consider giving our work a bump on X/Twitter. How the West Wins from
Tony Morley, July 17th, 2025 Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 16, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We’re pro-growth, free markets, progress, techno-optimism, classical liberalism, and
Tony Morley, June 5th, 2025 This op-ed was published in an abridged and edited edition by National Review, on June 17th, 2025. The unabridged is contained herein: Factories of Progress | National ReviewPolicies that hinder globalization and reduce trade are policies that decrease global prosperity and increase global poverty.National Review
Safer, cheaper, faster, further-reaching, more comfortable, and more equitable — there's never been a better time to fly across the country, or between continents. Tony Morley, June 5th, 2025 “The average person would need to take a flight every day for 25,214 years to experience a fatal accident”
Tony Morley, May 28th 2025 Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 15, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We’re pro-growth, free markets, progress, techno-optimism, classical liberalism, and
Tony Morley, April 5th, 2025 It's free trade, stupid. Free trade and globalization, a blessing or a curse? Spoiler alert, it's not just the lesser of two evils, it's a prime mover of global progress and prosperity. — "Is free trade worth the cost?
Tony Morley, March 20th 2025 “Both humans and hawks eat chickens — but the more hawks, the fewer chickens; while the more humans, the more chickens.” — Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879 The story of the pineapple is the story of agricultural progress, trade and globalization. Here's the story
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Tony Morley, March 11th 2025 Free trade drives progress, woolly mice, Blue Ghost sticks the landing, weather forecasting improves and much more: "Free trade gave them cheaper goods, new technologies and access to consumers in other countries. It lifted millions and millions from hunger and poverty." — Johan Norberg,
Tony Morley, February 27th 2025 Gene Therapy restores children's hearing in trial; soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use, suicide rates continue to fall, promising new therapies for autoimmune diseases, and AI diagnoses for HIV and epilepsy make progress, and much more: You’re reading The Up Wing,
Tony Morley, February 21st 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 10, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.
Tony Morley, February 14th 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology. Hey team,
Tony Morley, February 14th 2025 A newly approved xenotransplant kidney study could help lay the scientific and commercial groundwork to save tens of thousands of lives for those suffering kidney failure in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever clinical trial for
Tony Morley, February 12th 2025 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 9, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.
Tony Morley, October 1st, 2024 You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 8, progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, global trade, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science and technology.
Tony Morley, September 18th, 2024 "Vaccines have reduced infant mortality by 40% over the last 50 years," breakthrough nanoplastic filtering, and much more: Welcome to a rather large edition of The Up Wing, with dozens of stories of progress and breakthroughs from the last fortnight. It’s been
Tony Morley, August 13th, 2024 "The expense was extortionate, with the cost of producing a single pineapple matching that of a new coach. Yet the glory that ensued from this taste of Paradise beneath chilly grey skies made it all worth it" — The Pineapple, King of Fruits, Francesca
Tony Morley, August 8th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 6, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly-ish. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,
Tony Morley, July 25th, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 5, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly. We report on the past, present, and future of human progress, progress studies, and optimistic news. We're pro-growth, free markets, classical liberalism, Enlightenment, science,
Lunar regolith samples return from the far side of the Moon, 'quantum compass' breakthrough, 'Bridge Editing' could supersede CRISPR, and much more Tony Morley, July 2nd, 2024 Welcome to The Up Wing, Edition 4, the best in progress and optimistic news, collated, curated, and delivered weekly.
