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Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) 4 stars

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily …

I hate this man so much, lmao.

He loves pre-emptive arguments so much that he's ignoring spaces where he genuinely should include them, such as "how are homicide statistics determined" and "who counts as a homicide victim" and "how can we tell when a skeleton that is 10,000 years old or so has died from direct violence and not a lethal accident."

I cannot keep my ire straight; he's so largely misrepresenting so much that it's hard to point out EVERY BIT OF DATA that he's just manipulating or massaging.