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New York Times: 2019 ‘Best Year Ever’

Hank Berrien
New York Times: 2019 ‘Best Year Ever’
Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve

Over the weekend, The New York Times ran an opinion piece by two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof whose title must have freaked out leftists bent on remaking the world into their Utopia: “This Has Been the Best Year Ever.”

Kristof began by positing, “If you’re depressed by the state of the world, let me toss out an idea: In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been the best year ever … since modern humans emerged about 200,000 years ago, 2019 was probably the year in which children were least likely to die, adults were least likely to be illiterate and people were least likely to suffer excruciating and disfiguring diseases.

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