It’s particularly wrongheaded for the reactionary right to use frantic warnings about an Islamist “war” against the West (with a death toll in the hundreds) as a reason to return to an international order in which the West repeatedly fought wars against itself (with death tolls in the tens of millions).

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 451