Enlightenment Now
Categories: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Self-Help
Is the world really falling apart? Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker says no. He urges us to look past the grim headlines and follow the data instead. In seventy-five graphs, he shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness have risen, worldwide and not just in the West. That progress, Pinker argues, is no accident. It's a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can make human lives better.