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In the interview, Mike talks to political scientist James A. Robinson about why some nations have more liberty than others and what nations can do to uphold freedom in the face of political threats. His new book, co-written with Daron Acemoglu, is The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty.

Ethiopia’s Patriarch, Abune Mathias, expressed Ethiopia’s tragedy better than political actors, intellectuals and activists. It is a heartfelt condemnation of atrocities that the EPRDF government led by the Oromo Democratic Party and its leader Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed was unable to express or contain. 

The political turmoil of recent years has largely disabused us of the notion that the world has reached some sort of utopian “end of history.” And yet it can still seem that ours is an unprecedented era of peace and progress. On the whole, humans today are living safer and more prosperous lives than their ancestors did. They suffer less cruelty and arbitrary violence. Above all, they seem far less likely to go to war. The incidence of war has been decreasing steadily, a growing consensus holds, with war between great powers becoming all but unthinkable and all types of war becoming more and more rare.