ENLIGHTENMENT NOW

The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are livi ng longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the go ry headlin...[Read more]