I enjoyed listening to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “The Honor Code” from 2010. The book looks at human history with an interesting perspective. Emotions and culture shape our value systems. Illustrating via the four examples of change in respect to duels, foot binding, slavery and honor killings Appiah shows how mankind can indeed make progress. In 2020 it is worth remembering that we are on a path of progress. That many of the shortcomings of our ancestors don’t plague our behavior anymore. And it gives hope that we pick up on that kind of path in the future again.