Episode
"The Better Angels of Our Nature" Part 1: You're Not Wrong, Pinker. You're Just An *sshole
If Books Could Kill · Feb 22, 2024 · 1 h 38 min
This week we're tackling Steven Pinker's 900 page dissection of the reasons why violence, torture and war have declined over the last 10,000 years. Was it an indeterminate mixture of politics, economics, technology and serendipity? Or did some European guys write some books that said murder was bad? Special thanks to Philip Dwyer, Eleanor Janega, David M. Perry and Doug Thompson for help…