“These diverging curves,” writes Pinker commenting the graph above, “refute both the orthodox Green claim that only degrowth can curb pollution and the orthodox right-wing claim that environmental protection must sabotage economic growth and people’s standard of living.” Chapters 11–13: Peace...
Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker joins us to talk about his latest book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters.
Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now It’s not every day that I check my office mailbox and, amid the junk brochures, find 500 pages on the biggest questions facing civilization—all of them, basically—by possibly the single person on earth most qualified to tackle those questions. ...