that was max fisher channelling harvard's steven pinker who's going to join me in a moment. he addressed that question in his "new york times" front page story noting war is less common, globally, we've had less genocides and overall quality of life has improved in recent decades. max fisher argues that improvements aren't things that we don't see. we don't see wars that never happened, or deaths that were prevented by modern medicine, and the data suggests that stories like that of my father-in-law coming from dirt villages in distant lands and making a better life in america, they still occur. in fact, the children of immigrants still have a better income trajectory than those people who were born in the united states, that's according to two economic historians, ran ab abramitzky, and leah burstyn from princeton. they have just published their new book called streets of gold, america's untold story of immigrant success and in it, they argue that while today the journey might begin as it did for so many families in italy or poland or ireland or elsewhere in europe, today i