If you have been browsing The Spectator’s website as a visitor, we have the perfect opportunity to subscribe. Perfect, that is, you’re a fan of Steven Pinker – and if you’re not, you should be. He’s one of the most original, agenda-setting writers of our time.
From the use of language to the use of violence, his books are the sort that you return to over and over again. His latest book, Enlightenment Now, is out next week. I read a review copy over Christmas and while the embargo prevents me from saying anything about it I can say that it is, in my opinion, his best book yet. It’s about the many ways in which the world is improving: a feast of evidence, and also why we don’t believe it. A symptom, he says, of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies.
In my opinion, this is the biggest story of our time – and one that doesn’t get told because news organisations have a bias towards bad news.
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