It Just Gets Better! January 29, 2018January 27, 2018 Today: Steven Pinker on Why Progressives Hate Progress. An upbeat 10 minutes in case you found Friday’s post too depressing. It shows how things have for decades gotten steadily better even as the headlines have grown more bleak. Of course, if the last 446 days have shown us anything it’s that progress is not guaranteed. But Pinker notes that the odds would improve if young people would simply . . . vote.