Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, (Paperback)

from jzacsh

Best thing I've read in the last few years, at least. Speaks to my worries, works through facts, and leaves me more inspired and hopeful than I can remember being in a long time. I can't recommend this book enough.

from nivramkoorb

This book is very controversial because it deals with such a large subject. Having just finished this book and the 3 books by Yuval Hurari, I find that together they give a very global perspective about where we are at this moment in history. Pinker uses a lot of data to illustrate his main point...

from Dilip-Kumar

Another outstanding work (of course) from the author, a broad and detailed world survey of the state of the society, and especially of violence, war, crime, and prosperity and the feeling of well-being. Most people tend to see the world deteriorating year by year, but Pinker says that this is usu...

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A thoughtful well constructed Defense of Enlightenment values in the modern era with multiple examples on why the future might be rosier than you might think. Varying from cognitive biases to public health, neuroanatomy to quantum physics this is a wide based evidence analysis with hypothesis tes...

from mbmackay

I love reading Pinker - he is incredibly insightful and thought provoking. This book is something of a continuation of Better Angels, with the content broadened from violence to quality of life. As he makes clear, we live in the best of times. Not perfect, but free of most of the the blights of s...