... are, in fact, gaining ground. In his most recent work, The Better Angels of Our Nature — Why Violence Has Declined (2012) America’s most prominent scientific writer, Harvard neuroscientist Steven Pinker traces an undeniable drop in violence across the world in the past several centuries. Sounds wrong doesn’t it. But Pinker notes the decline in the number of wars, the rising rule of law, the strength of centralized governments, and the world’s economic interdependence, as all evidence of the growth ...
