Martyrs of Yesterday

It takes very little effort to get an argument going between generations about progress. Has there been any in the last couple of generations? Is this really the worst of all possible worlds at the worst of all possible times?

Here is a book with weighty evidence that says things do change, and sometimes for the better. To cite a juridical example, it might come as a surprise that only in recent times was the principle accepted that convictions resulting from perjured evidence are faul...