Stephen Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature, Brilliance (Check his website, stevenpinker.com. Or http://proxypantheon.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/interview-with-audiobook-reader-arthur-morey/).
Better Angels enthusiastically reviewed everywhere. Pinker’s message: humankind is less violent than ever. This is not conventional wisdom; it’s a hard sell. Pinker writes huge, overwhelming books. He works across disciplines—history, evolutionary biology, philosophy, sociology—so he persuades partly by weight of evidence. If you disagreed, where would you start?
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