>>14 No, he simply looks at the facts and realizes that the level of human happiness per capita has grown. To a person like me who doesn't care about ethics or ideology that's all that matters.
"47 percent of the world´s population lived in free countries in 2006, up from 26 percent in 1976."
He also mentions that "there is now a negative trend in 33 countries and positive ones in just 18. We also see the emergence of authoritarian countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran that use their resources to export anti-democratic ideas. And of course, the collapse of the democratic experiment in Iraq has discredited democracy and encouraged dictatorships everywhere."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6880 Then there's this.