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Steven Pinker – Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress Steven Pinker Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress book

The contrast between the messy reality o f democracy and the civics-class ideal leads to perennial disillusionment.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 206