Everything Is Fine Now Because Of How Bad It Was Before.

Steven Pinker makes the current as good as it could be by telling more terrible stories about the past.

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I know Steve has clarified that he was not discounting the difficulties people face today in his books Better Angels of our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. That said, his conservative apologists use his conclusions to do just that. Our…