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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 04 > Book’s statistics on violence are a reason for optimism

Book’s statistics on violence are a reason for optimism

By Carl Zimmer / The Bulletin
December 4, 2011

“The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker (Viking, 832 pgs., $40)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Steven Pinker was a 15-year-old anarchist. He didn’t think people needed a police force to keep the peace. Governments caused the very problems they were supposed to solve.

Besides, it was 1969, said....

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