“Almost without exception, prosperity blossoms where people and governments embrace the light of Western culture and norms. Individuals and governments who do, on average, outperform those that don’t.”
Tony Morley, July 6th, 2026 “Pro-market ideas have taken hold nearly everywhere, raising living standards by an extraordinary amount for a huge number of people.” — Sam Bowman Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 27: progress, optimistic news and ideas, collated, curated, and delivered.
“Degrowth is a depressive ideology, a paralytic that denies the possibility of real progress,“ it's time we ditched it.
“No other collection of values and ideas than those of the Enlightenment has resulted in freer, longer, healthier, and richer lives.”
Tony Morley, May 4th, 2026 “Argentina’s rapid transformation from nearly a century of socialism to free market capitalism continues to prove the superiority of the latter. It is rare that we get to witness such a radical experiment in real time. It is no surprise, however, that it’s
Tony Morley, April 18th, 2026 “War in Europe and the Middle East, and political unrest in the United States. Hunger, poverty, violence. You’d be forgiven, exposed as we are to the narrative of modern media, for believing that the golden age of humanity lies behind us. That the present
Tony Morley, March 31st, 2026 “When lawmakers believe the world is growing less fair by the day, they reach for bigger government as the default response. But if the real goal is upward mobility, opportunity, and a decent life for regular people, the biggest obstacle is not “the rich.” It
Tony Morley, March 12th, 2026 “The growth of the world’s population, combined with the expansion of the rule of law, property rights, and economic freedom, has ushered in a superabundant age of prosperity and lower prices. Zoomers have enjoyed the fruits of this economic miracle and are forecast to
Tony Morley, February 20th, 2026 “But progress is a choice. Making what is possible probable needs a new narrative. A story in which growth is good, plenty is achievable, and people are inspired to innovate and build.” — McKinsey Global Institute Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up
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Turning our back on the culture that built civilization will stifle progress and sow poverty, decline and conflict, at home and abroad Tony Morley, December 12th, 2025 “The solution is to embrace leaders and policies that turn outward, not inward; and that embrace freedom, not control.” Welcome to The Up
Tony Morley, November 25th, 2025 “Yet while getting no respect, free markets – or “capitalism” – have delivered exceptional results over a period spanning more than 200 years and reaching around the globe to every country where they’ve been tried.” — Matthew Lau Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The
Tony Morley, November 20th, 2025 “But the facts are clear: There can be enough for everyone. The data tell us that lives are better now than lives were in the past—even though there are now many more lives around. Fears of a depleted, overpopulated future are out of date.
Tony Morley, September 23rd, 2025 “We're going to pander to the evil? No. What makes the West great is that we do good after evil, not evil after evil.” — Charlie Kirk Welcome to The Up Wing You’re reading The Up Wing, Edition 20, progress and optimistic news
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
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
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
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
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
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
