Marian L. Tupy

Marian L. Tupy is Editor of HumanProgress and a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.

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Botswana's success is remarkable - and it's down to capitalism

Marian L. Tupy - 21 Aug 2020

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Verhofstadt is wrong to fear a European Singapore

Marian L. Tupy - 30 Sep 2019

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How prosperity drives the environmentalist frenzy

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Sep 2019

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Why are we not seeing a revolution in Zimbabwe?

Marian L. Tupy - 28 Aug 2019

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Prince Harry is wrong about overpopulation

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Aug 2019

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A progressive president will not change Slovakia's rotten politics

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Jul 2019

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The planet's future is too important to leave to the catastrophists

Marian L. Tupy - 12 Jul 2019

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America is in the grip of a living standards myth

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Jun 2019

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Hollywood's apocalypse obsession ignores the reality of human progress

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Jun 2019

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The earth has its problems, but a lack of resources is not one of them

Marian L. Tupy - 30 May 2019

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What does another ANC victory mean for South Africa?

Marian L. Tupy - 21 May 2019

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Beware the anti-humanism of the green movement

Marian L. Tupy - 25 Apr 2019

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Has Slovakia's political development reached the point of no return?

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Apr 2019

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The story of human progress in the 21st century

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Apr 2019

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Cheaper food is good news for everyone

Marian L. Tupy - 3 Apr 2019

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Free markets dramatically reduce the cost of living

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Mar 2019

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Will South Africa learn from Zimbabwe's ruin?

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Mar 2019

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Forget the romantic images, rural life in the past was a battle for survival

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Mar 2019

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Coal dust, urban pigs and sewage - the grim reality of pre-industrial Europe

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Feb 2019

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The romantic idea of a plentiful past is pure fantasy

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Feb 2019

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Trade deals with the US can pave the way to a prosperous Africa

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Feb 2019

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The miracle we all take for granted

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Feb 2019

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What does the history of work tell us about its future?

Marian L. Tupy - 25 Jan 2019

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Is moral progress a myth?

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Jan 2019

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How capitalism brought tourism to the masses

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Jan 2019

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Capital punishment has declined dramatically - but further progress will be tough

Marian L. Tupy - 4 Jan 2019

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Best of 2018: Things are getting better – so why are we all so gloomy?

Marian L. Tupy - 24 Dec 2018

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Progress on gay rights is real, but far from uniform

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Dec 2018

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The jagged arc of human progress

Marian L. Tupy - 14 Dec 2018

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The counter-intuitive truth about the world's resources

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Dec 2018

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Growth is the ultimate weapon in the fight to end child labour

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Nov 2018

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Debunking the overpopulation alarmists

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Nov 2018

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How rich are we?

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Nov 2018

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An unqualified success - how access to education will carry on booming

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Oct 2018

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How smartphones are helping to save the planet

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Oct 2018

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Romer and Nordhaus: Worthy Nobel winners and apostles of progress

Marian L. Tupy - 9 Oct 2018

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If he abandons free trade, Trump's legacy will be economic decline

Marian L. Tupy - 24 Sep 2018

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Inequality is the handmaiden of human progress

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Sep 2018

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The market is the real driver of better working conditions

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Sep 2018

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Progress has been made, but the battle with malaria is far from over

Marian L. Tupy - 6 Sep 2018

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How should the world respond to South Africa's illiberal turn?

Marian L. Tupy - 21 Aug 2018

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How humanity won the war on famine

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Aug 2018

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The world has come a long way from cesspits to sanitation

Marian L. Tupy - 8 Aug 2018

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Humanity is winning the war on AIDS

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Aug 2018

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How the profit motive can help fight climate change

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Jul 2018

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Cities are central to human flourishing

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Jul 2018

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Market capitalism has achieved what Karl Marx always wanted

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Jul 2018

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The death of democracy? The data tells a different story

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Jul 2018

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Trump's best chance of reining in China is to revisit the TPP

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Jun 2018

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How progress turns scarcity into abundance

Marian L. Tupy - 15 Jun 2018

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Jordan Peterson is right – inequality does not always imply discrimination

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Jun 2018

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Hillary Clinton and John Bolton - dumb and dumber

Marian L. Tupy - 23 May 2018

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Israel is a lesson in what makes nations thrive

Marian L. Tupy - 16 May 2018

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Fifty years on, The Population Bomb is as wrong as ever

Marian L. Tupy - 9 May 2018

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Income equality is no measure of human progress

Marian L. Tupy - 2 May 2018

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Rare earth elements, scarcity and human ingenuity

Marian L. Tupy - 24 Apr 2018

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Free enterprise is the solution to South Africa's problems

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Apr 2018

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Humanity's remarkable economic history

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Apr 2018

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A decade of human progress

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Apr 2018

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The meaning of happiness

Marian L. Tupy - 30 Mar 2018

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Explaining our miraculous flourishing

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Mar 2018

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The criminal stench in Slovakian public life

Marian L. Tupy - 15 Mar 2018

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Can South Africa's catastrophic land grab be stopped?

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Mar 2018

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Merkel's list of failures is only getting longer

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Feb 2018

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Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's hero, stood out among African leaders

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Feb 2018

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Progress depends on reason

Marian L. Tupy - 9 Feb 2018

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The vicious cycle that props up dictatorships

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Feb 2018

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A step in the wrong direction for human freedom

Marian L. Tupy - 25 Jan 2018

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Ramaphosa's land grab will repeat Zimbabwe's destructive mistakes

Marian L. Tupy - 19 Jan 2018

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America deserves better than Trump versus Winfrey

Marian L. Tupy - 12 Jan 2018

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Things are getting better - so why are we all so gloomy?

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Jan 2018

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Catalonia demonstrates the folly of a United States of Europe

Marian L. Tupy - 31 Dec 2017

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The world's getting better all the time

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Dec 2017

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The freedoms at stake in the gay cake case

Marian L. Tupy - 15 Dec 2017

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Trust me, I'm a capitalist

Marian L. Tupy - 8 Dec 2017

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There's nothing green about socialism

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Dec 2017

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Zimbabwe, Mugabe and the human nature of politics

Marian L. Tupy - 24 Nov 2017

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Mugabe's downfall is not the end of Zimbabwe's misery

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Nov 2017

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Socialism's obsession with race

Marian L. Tupy - 10 Nov 2017

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Washington is a city for sale

Marian L. Tupy - 3 Nov 2017

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Things are looking up - by any measure

Marian L. Tupy - 30 Oct 2017

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Slovakia is finally cleaning up its act

Marian L. Tupy - 19 Oct 2017

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The swamp is thriving

Marian L. Tupy - 12 Oct 2017

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Catalonia demonstrates the folly of a United States of Europe

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Oct 2017

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Trump should call the Democrats' bluff on tax

Marian L. Tupy - 29 Sep 2017

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How the debate on climate change is cooling down

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Sep 2017

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Trump should heed the failures of 1917

Marian L. Tupy - 15 Sep 2017

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Eastern Europe is paying the price for Merkel's recklessness

Marian L. Tupy - 6 Sep 2017

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Even by its own standards, communism has failed miserably

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Sep 2017

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The man who kept the torch of South African liberalism alight

Marian L. Tupy - 25 Aug 2017

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The man behind the Hong Kong miracle

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Aug 2017

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Why sovereignty matters

Marian L. Tupy - 3 Aug 2017

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What the EU could learn from Australia

Marian L. Tupy - 27 Jul 2017

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The totalitarianism of the environmentalists

Marian L. Tupy - 19 Jul 2017

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It's time to rethink foreign aid

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Jul 2017

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The questionable economics of foreign aid

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Jul 2017

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What the rest of the world can learn from Hong Kong

Marian L. Tupy - 29 Jun 2017

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Busting the Left's myths about Reaganomics

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Jun 2017

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Why big business is nothing to be scared of

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Jun 2017

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Man's ingenuity is quenching the world's thirst

Marian L. Tupy - 8 Jun 2017

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Trump should follow in Reagan's footsteps

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Jun 2017

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Only the rule of law can break the poverty cycle

Marian L. Tupy - 25 May 2017

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Venezuela's lesson for young socialists

Marian L. Tupy - 18 May 2017

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Will the rainbow nation end up on the ash heap of history?

Marian L. Tupy - 12 May 2017

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Socialism's true legacy is immorality

Marian L. Tupy - 3 May 2017

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Prosperity and income aren't the same thing

Marian L. Tupy - 27 Apr 2017

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What does it mean to be poor today?

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Apr 2017

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How Africa got left behind

Marian L. Tupy - 12 Apr 2017

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The EU must change - or fall apart

Marian L. Tupy - 6 Apr 2017

As Europe falters, Britain strides free

Marian L. Tupy - 30 Mar 2017

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Free speech is being shut down in South Africa

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Mar 2017

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What Scotland can learn from the Velvet Divorce

Marian L. Tupy - 17 Mar 2017

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While Africa starves, its leaders change the subject

Marian L. Tupy - 10 Mar 2017

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Don't demonise capitalism - it's making the world a better place

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Mar 2017

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Why South Africa is no longer such a gold mine

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Feb 2017

It's time to cut Greece loose

Marian L. Tupy - 17 Feb 2017

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Trump has ushered in an era of unprecedented hypocrisy

Marian L. Tupy - 10 Feb 2017

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Why the human brain is our most precious commodity

Marian L. Tupy - 6 Feb 2017

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Trump clearly doesn't have a clue about trade

Marian L. Tupy - 27 Jan 2017

Trump's day has dawned - so what should we expect?

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Jan 2017

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Is US aid doing more harm than good?

Marian L. Tupy - 13 Jan 2017

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If this is what the EU is like, no wonder Britain is leaving

Marian L. Tupy - 1 Jan 2017

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A beginner's guide to socialist economics

Marian L. Tupy - 31 Dec 2016

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Socialism and hunger: a quick reminder

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Dec 2016

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Obama will be only a footnote in America's history

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Dec 2016

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The secret lives of North Korean children

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Dec 2016

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Chile is thriving - so why is socialism rising?

Marian L. Tupy - 9 Dec 2016

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The river of poison running through America's body politic

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Dec 2016

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How to limit social discord in a divided America

Marian L. Tupy - 25 Nov 2016

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Why have young Americans lost confidence in their country?

Marian L. Tupy - 18 Nov 2016

A silver lining for America

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Nov 2016

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Is America heading down the road to Roman ruin?

Marian L. Tupy - 4 Nov 2016

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Celebrate the Industrial Revolution - and the fossil fuels which drove it

Marian L. Tupy - 28 Oct 2016

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Why is America so gloomy about the future?

Marian L. Tupy - 21 Oct 2016

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New horizons await a free Britain

Marian L. Tupy - 14 Oct 2016

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How globalisation saved the world

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Oct 2016

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If this is what the EU is like, no wonder Britain is leaving

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Sep 2016

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A beginner's guide to socialist economics

Marian L. Tupy - 16 Sep 2016

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Is hostility really at the root of capitalism?

Marian L. Tupy - 2 Sep 2016

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In Europe, national interest rules supreme

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Aug 2016

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Lack of reforms has turned Ukraine into a vulnerable basket case

Marian L. Tupy - 19 Aug 2016

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South Africa’s ANC government: corrupt, inept and immoral

Marian L. Tupy - 12 Aug 2016

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How can the United States help Africa?

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Aug 2016

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Labour leaders are useless narcissists

Marian L. Tupy - 29 Jul 2016

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Africa is growing thanks to capitalism

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Jul 2016

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Rapid reforms in ex-communist countries led to higher incomes and more political freedom

Marian L. Tupy - 15 Jul 2016

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The Fallout from Brexit

Marian L. Tupy - 3 Jul 2016

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America is relatively safe and tolerant

Marian L. Tupy - 23 Jun 2016

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Economists are often wrong (and British voters ought to know that)

Marian L. Tupy - 20 Jun 2016

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The EU's mounting failures are pushing Britain towards the exit

Marian L. Tupy - 10 Jun 2016

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Good luck and high taxes

Marian L. Tupy - 3 Jun 2016

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Socialism and self-delusion

Marian L. Tupy - 27 May 2016

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As Venezuela craters, appeal of socialism remains

Marian L. Tupy - 20 May 2016

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Trump's road to victory? Only if you believe him.

Marian L. Tupy - 9 May 2016

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Will a robot take your job?

Marian L. Tupy - 3 May 2016

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Chernobyl: a personal recollection

Marian L. Tupy - 27 Apr 2016

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The poor whites conundrum

Marian L. Tupy - 19 Apr 2016

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Trump on NATO: even a broken clock is right twice a day

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Apr 2016

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South Africa’s highest court fights for democracy by rebuking Jacob Zuma

Marian L. Tupy - 5 Apr 2016

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The uneasy opening to Cuba

Marian L. Tupy - 29 Mar 2016

Obama is wrong to fawn over Castro's Cuba

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Mar 2016

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Socialism and hunger: a quick reminder

Marian L. Tupy - 22 Mar 2016

The American foreign policy establishment’s EU delusions

Marian L. Tupy - 9 Mar 2016

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Commodities collapse isn't harbinger of doom

Marian L. Tupy - 14 Jan 2016

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The power of bad ideas: why voters keep choosing failed statism

Marian L. Tupy - 7 Jan 2016

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Two cheers for 2015

Marian L. Tupy - 30 Dec 2015

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Baby Boomers: the lucky generation and the mess they leave behind

Marian L. Tupy - 10 Dec 2015

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What to think about during Thanksgiving?

Marian L. Tupy - 26 Nov 2015

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Public opinion and the state of American capitalism

Marian L. Tupy - 11 Nov 2015