E25: Economic growth and happiness, raising IQ with salt, child mortality down 60% since 1990, and more:

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

E24: Trade, Trust, The Wealth of Nations, “First-of-its-kind vaccine” for E. coli in children, and more:

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

E23: Free trade, food prices in context, a century of plenty, 99 Stories of Progress and more:

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

The Enlightenment Isn't Dead, Yet

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

E22: “Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand and sold in the United States”

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

E21: In defence of neoliberalism, most people think life is likely to get better, mining for progress, and more:

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 Fears of a depleted, overpopulated future are out of date.

E20: “Good vs Evil” — the best podcast episode of the year, declining global poverty, crop yields continue to increase through 2025 and more.

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

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,

E11: Gene therapy restores children's hearing in trial; a soil breakthrough could cut fertiliser use, and much more:

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,

E10: India adds 2.7 MW of solar an hour, maternal mortality falls by 80% in Tanzania, smoking rates plummet in the U.S. and much more:

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.

There has never been a better time in history to love and be loved 💖

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,

U.S. FDA approves breakthrough gene-edited pig kidney xenotransplant trial

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

E9: Nuclear-powered AI, the safest time to fly is now, a game-changing HIV drug, and much more:

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.