We Live in a Time of Great Peace

"I feel like we ought to be living in a time where the average American is encouraged to be as skeptical as possible about damn near everything," he says. "We have never had it so good as a general matter ... We live in a time of great peace and there are threats to that peace that we need to address" He adds: "The tendency that we have to say everything is the worst or that anything that happens is the biggest crisis since it's just a bad, bad cultural habit"