Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist and linguist at Harvard University, known for popular books arguing that violence has declined over time and that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have driven human progress.
The Better Angels of Our Nature documented the long-term decline of violence; Enlightenment Now provided the most comprehensive defense of Enlightenment values against both religious and progressive critics.
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