In Enlightenment Now, the scientist and philosopher Steven Pinker defends the Enlightenment ideals of liberal democracy, civil liberties, free markets, religious toleration, and free speech. He also warns that political leaders and their intellectual fellow travelers seek power and position by appealing to some of the less admirable “strands of human nature: our loyalty to tribe, deference to authority, magical thinking, the blaming of evildoers.” Ronald Bailey reviews the book for Reason.
from Hit & Run http://ift.tt/2GxO827
via IFTTT