What about Enlightenment?
What about Enlightenment? Pretty potent topic, eh? Steven Pinker, tackles it big time! Check out this recent TED talk, based on his book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Good news, perhaps startling to many of us, especially progressives, is that there are many reasons to be encouraged about the state...
Evening the Odds
This is the title of an article in the New Yorker from last year. (I’m always behind in my reading, but I keep the issues because I love the cartoons and selecting a few article of interest. We don’t actually subscribe, but get the copies from a friend, months later. That works well as many of...