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Psychologist Steven Pinker

Psychologist Steven Pinker

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

Are we living in a uniquely healthy, safe and more prosperous world?

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The HARDtalk programme, like so many others in the churn of 24/7
news tends to focus on people and places facing problems and
challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account
for things that went wrong, not right. Are we missing the bigger
picture about the world we live in? Stephen Sackur speaks to the
psychologist and writer, Steven Pinker. His new book,
Enlightenment Now, is a paean to human progress driven by reason
and science. How convincing are his reasons to be cheerful?

(Photo: Psychologist and writer Steven Pinker)