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Monday Oct 24, 2011
Violence really is diminishing
Monday Oct 24, 2011
Monday Oct 24, 2011
The seemingly endless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, might make us believe we live in the most violent age ever. But Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, explains that just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and continues to diminish, even in our modern times. In The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined he looks at human nature, psychology, and history to explain how this has happened. My conversation with Steven Pinker:
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