Pinker’s Progress
The progress Steven Pinker identifies is real, but so is the growing gap between what is and what could be.
Writer Stephen Pinker (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images)
Imagine that someone you love read Steven Pinker’s 2018 book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. They were dumbstruck by the evidence: consistently, across domains, across several hundred years, life has improved. The average human is living a longer, healthier, safer, and happier life than ever before. This person knows that […]
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