British historian, Paul Johnson, was interviewed extensively on C-SPAN this morning. A viewer called to ask him whether, in his view, the world was “going to hell.” Johnson answered that he thought life on the planet had made a general improvement, materially, in the past two to three thousand years, but then added that, morally, humans had made no real improvement; that on a moral level, we are on about the same level as humans were during the times of Julius Caesar; that we needed to focus our attention on improving the moral realm of our behavior. He was later … Continue reading An Historian Speaks