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Mar 17, 2018 · In his new book, Steven Pinker is curiously blind to the power and benefits of small-town values. I’m a scientist at UC Berkeley — a card-carrying true believer in liberal Enlightenment...
Enlightenment Now closes with Pinker’s celebration of humanism––a strong message that rehabilitated my humanist loyalties, which took a hit when I read Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus last year. I still wonder how humanism will stay relevant as we evolve into new transhuman and posthuman forms, but I’ve no doubt that Pinker’s ...
Feb 28, 2018 · When he published “The Better Angels of Our Nature” in 2011, he believed he unequivocally showed that modernity and liberal Enlightenment values had made people less violent, and so he was taken...
Read 3,308 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the bi…
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Review: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker — don’t believe the false doom-mongers Today we are living healthier, wealthier lives — and it’s thanks to the values of the Enlightenment, says...
Feb 28, 2018 · Progress marches ever-onward, bringing light to the darkness, and order to chaos. For nearly 600 pages, Enlightenment Now sounds the siren that everything's okay.
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Feb 24, 2018 · A respected linguist and cognitive scientist, Pinker has emerged in recent years as prominent defender of the West and allied scientific values, blending rhetoric and data like Christopher...
