E19: Poverty is declining, the benefits of freer trade, Ireland’s escape from poverty and more:

Tony Morley, September 10th, 2025 “While freer trade—in both exports and imports—makes us better off, the opposite is also true. Barriers to free trade, such as tariffs, have a negative impact on our economic well-being.” — The benefits of freer trade Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading

E18: Trump is a degrowther, tariffs are taxing Americans hard, trade lifts all boats and “Breakfast for Eight Billion”

Tony Morley, August 28th, 2025 “Degrowth argues that people should not only tolerate but desire a smaller economy. That’s second-term Trumponomics, and everyone stands to be worse off for it.” — Annie Lowrey Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 18, progress and optimistic news

“Breakfast for Eight Billion” How we fed the world

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

E17: Population drives human progress, factories bring prosperity, 'How the West Wins from Globalization' and much more:

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

How the West Wins from Globalization

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

E16: Free-market economics is working, tariffs aren't, a breakthrough malaria drug for babies, switching off the doom, and much more:

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

Factories of Progress: “We risk killing the golden goose because we've grown sick of collecting golden eggs.”

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

The Golden Era of Flying is Now

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”

E15: “How golden ages really start—and end”, a major CRISPR breakthrough, measles vaccinations have prevented over ninety million deaths, and much more:

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

E14: Dragon orbits the poles, global happiness, it's free trade stupid, next generation GLP-1 drugs, and much more:

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?

E13: How to feed the world, the $16,000 pineapple, a titanium heart and much more:

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

E12: Free trade drives progress, and much more:

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,