Joining me today is the editor of humanprogress.org and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.

Marien Tupi, welcome to the Ruben Report.

Thanks so much for having me.

I am very excited to have you on. We've met once before for a dinner.

But what you're doing with human progress, I think, is just spectacular.

You guys are actually promoting good news.

There is actual good news and good things happening in the world.

And it seemingly is something that people don't often talk about.

So I think you're doing great work and we're going to spend an hour talking about a lot of the good stuff that is happening.

But I always like to start with a little bio on people.

So tell me a little bit about yourself.

Had you end up working for human progress?

Well, I was born behind the Iron Curtain in what was then communist Czechoslovakia.

And so from early age I started to understand the importance of political and economic freedom.

We had neither.

That'll make you learn it pretty quick.

That's right.

And then when the wall came down in 1989, me and my parents went for Christmas in Vienna.

That was the first time that you could actually leave your country and you could travel abroad as a family.

How old were you at the time?

I was 13.

Because before then people still could travel to the west, but they would keep the children behind as hostages.

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