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The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

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Pinker marshals 700 pages of data to argue violence has declined dramatically across human history. A favorite of techno-optimists who want to believe the long arc bends toward progress.

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  • In 'The Long Peace is a Statistical Illusion' (with Pasquale Cirillo), Taleb argues against the book's central thesis that violence has structurally declined, contending war casualties follow a fat-tailed distribution where long quiet periods are statistically expected and say nothing about a real decline.

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