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“The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined”

The reason, according to the Montreal-born psychologist Steven Pinker’s massive book with that title, is, above all, the civilizing effect of governments and cities. From Elizabeth Kolbert’s review in… more →

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Steven Pinker on why life is no longer nasty, brutish and short — 2 comments

swedishpotato wrote 1 month ago: The Peace Dividend A great Ted Talk here by Steven Pinker on the ongoing decline in violence. Not on … more →

Tags: videos, Data, Myth busting, Philosophy, data 2, technology, Steven Pinker, Violence, Hobbes

Gorbachev

abactive wrote 8 months ago: the new hero can let it fail allow the dissolve – in an historical divide, severing the heart attack … more →

Tags: Poetry, Poems, Soviet Union, Failure, Honor, peom, Violence, Surrender

The Many Forms of Human Violence — 8 comments

jeffreymasson wrote 1 year ago: For those of you who only follow my blog because of your interest in what I have to say about animal … more →

Tags: Steven Pinker, the better angels of our nature, Thomas Szasz, lobotomies, human violence, "psychiatric violence", rosemary kennedy, hidden violence, Cults

“The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined” — 7 comments

erickoch wrote 1 year ago: The reason, according to the Montreal-born psychologist Steven Pinker’s massive book with that title … more →

Tags: Churchill, Steven Pinker, Elizabeth Kolbert, New Orleans, St. Louis, Murder Rates


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