![]() ![]() Steven Pinker talks Donald Trump, the media, and how the world is better off today than ever before - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Feb. Live: Cognitive scientist and author sapinker discusses new book EnlightmentNow SalonTalks - Salon, Feb. Pinker makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress. In his new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, which has received rave reviews from many commentators, Pinker suggests to readers that progress is. Steven Pinker A New Enlightenment - The Long Now Foundation, Mar. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. ![]() The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature - tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking - which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. In seventy-five graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. ![]() Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. ![]()
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