Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 9780525427575, 9780698177888, 9780525559023, 9789241564991, 9789241565141, 0525427570

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Review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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