INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF
2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book
of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an
end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and
happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions
lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the
author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling
apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant
assessment of the human condition in the third millennium,
cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us
to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which
play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In
seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health,
prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the
rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the
result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the
conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.
Far from being a naive hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has
worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The
Enlightenment project swims against currents of human
nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical
thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many
commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic
ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a
corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious
institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With
intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the
case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to
confront our problems and continue our progress.
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