![]() ![]() In his latest book, Enlightenment Now, he drives this point home with a new battery of statistics, in an effort to show that health, prosperity, and overall happiness are also on the rise. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, he showed that violence had in fact declined through the ages, whether it be in terms of human sacrifice, slavery, homicide rates or armed confict, and that empathy and self-control had gradually overcome. Named one of Time's “100 Most Influential People in the World”, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker rose to fame with his detailed studies of human cognition and bestselling science books. More importantly, in this age of mass media fear mongering, he’s been the champion of a unique brand of optimism, entirely based on facts. ![]()
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