Thanks, Amazon readers

It's Better Than It Looks is currently #1 seller in the category "history of civilization," which is a pretty cool thing to be #1 in.

Thanks, Wall Street Journal

And thanks as well to Michael Shermer. It's Better Than It Looks is "important...masterly and comprehensive." The book "wants to make optimism intellectually respectable again," which is exactly my goal.

Thanks, Steve Pinker

What a great guy Steven Pinker is to say nice things about my new book. Just out, in case you are wondering about that book.

Thanks, All Things Considered

Talking with Sarah McCammon of NPR about It's Better Than It Looks.

Thanks Slate

Talking with Mike Pesca on The Gist podcast.

Thanks, WNYC

Me talking with Hari Kondabolu on WNYC's Midday. This is a good segment for those who are skeptical of the positive hypothesis -- Hari was, and it's more-or-less a debate.

Thanks, Carnegie Coucil

My talk at the Carnegie Council for International Ethics in NYC.

Details for tonight's talk...

...at the Carnegie Council in NYC.

Thanks "My History"

First podcast on It's Better Than It Looks.

Thank you, Library Journal

Starred review: "A well-written account of a pertinent topic; readers will flock to this book."

Two past articles that bear on upcoming new book

The intellectual heritage of my book It’s Better Than It Looks, about to be released, is two New Republic cover stories. The first, two decades ago, was titled America the Okay. The second, published in 2005, was titled The End of War? Note the latter came six years before Steve Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature, which is a terrific book but not the first to document the decline of violence.

Carnegie talk in NYC

Will speak at the Carnegie Council in NYC on 2-20-18.

Am excited that Timothy Snyder of Yale, my favorite historian, speaks the following day.

PublicAffairs book announcement

Here's the cover for new book out next month.

announcement of next book

New pub date for It's Better Than It Looks is February 20, 2018.

Thanks to the Getting Better Foundation

A podcast on their subject and also on my upcoming book.

Thanks Rush

“Mr. Easterbrook, I don’t mean to damage your career by promoting your work – he is a very scholarly guy, and an environmental wacko, your friends will be upset that I am praising you” -- Rush Limbaugh on 9-6-17.

I am indeed an environmental wacko, if that means accepting the National Academy of Sciences research view of climate change, and accepting the economist-consensus view that a carbon cap-and-trade system would be the most cost-effective countermeasure.

Home page for this season's TMQ

2017 TMQs will be collected here.

Announcement of TMQ relaunch

From MediaDC. And yes there will be politics, culture, science and economics, including center-left arguments.

Thanks Blasting News

"Like the mapping of the human mind."

TMQ tease

August 21 will be a total eclipse of the sun as the gods wax wroth.

August 22 the football gods will smile as Tuesday Morning Quarterback returns.

Details very soon.