An exceptionally violent period in modern history
New stats suggest that most people alive have never lived through a moment more violent than today.
In the “What I am reading” section, I included a podcast from Derek Thompson that revealed a fact I did not know: we are currently living through the most violent period in global history in 80 years.
There were more global conflicts in 2023 than in any year since the end of WWII, and it is not just state-on-state wars, as drug cartels and terrorist grou…