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If this has been super-decade, why are we still so angry?

There is a strong case to be made that things are getting better.

In 2010, Matt Ridley made the case in "The Rational Optimist" that things were better than they appeared. Writing in The Spectator, on the cusp of 2020, Ridley offers an update: We're finishing the best decade in human history.

But it sure doesn't feel like it, does it? In the political realm, we're all

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