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Link Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong,…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
Twitter Links Delusions of Peace
Stephen Pinker argues that we are becoming less violent. Nonsense, says John Gray

October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments
Twitter Links A History Of Violence
Steven Pinker Edge Master Class

September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments
Link Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and…
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment,…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
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March 11 2011, 10:35am | Comments
Link Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety…

March 6 2011, 1:02pm | Comments
Link The Perils Of Progress
Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to…

June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments

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