Enlightenment Now (2018) by Steven Pinker argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have generated enormous human progress across health, wealth, safety, and well-being, and that pessimism about the modern world is empirically unwarranted.
The most comprehensive contemporary defence of Enlightenment progress; Bill Gates called it his favourite book.
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