REVIEWS Samuel Cohn, Global Social Trends, Aug. 2019 Tom Bartlett, The Chronicle Review, Mar. 2019 Simon Heffer, The Telegraph, Jan. 2019 52 Insights, Jan. 2019 Geoffrey Galt Harpham , Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Fall 2018 Dennis Junk, Dennis Junk's Author Site, Apr. 2018 Joshua Kim...

A terrific book…[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life. —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times For years, I’ve been saying Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book I’d read...

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Pinker brings an engaging and witty style to the study of subject matter that—were it not as important to us as it is complex—might otherwise be off-putting. ... An inviting and important book. Everyone with an interest in language and how it gets to be how it is—that is, everyone interested in how...

Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking. Now he wants us to join him. For this series Professor Pinker has created a critical thinking toolkit which he hopes will help all of us make better decisions about - well, everything. Steven will be joined by some big thinkers, and...

Has the Decline of Violence Reversed since The Better Angels of Our Nature was Written? 2015 Update 2015 Graphs 2014 Update Questions about Definitions How do you define “violence”? I don’t. I use the term in its standard sense, more or less the one you’d find in a dictionary (such as The American...