Steven pinker's book is a passionate plea to trust the enlightenment era ideas of science, reason, and humanism. Pinker demonstrates with eye popping evidence how much the human condition has vastly improved over the past 200 years.

Enlightenment now is a fantastic book with a very uplifting reason works! It is essential reading in today’s world, where we are bombarded with overblown negativity from all sides. I just find it easier to digest that type of information audibly.

The book is packed with memorable and important quotes and data. That critiques come in from both the left and right suggests to me that the author has written something worth reading.

Delusional optimism is the last thing humanity needs right now. Optimism is all well and good, but unrealistic optimism is foolish. In sum a dashed hope for enlightenment.

He decries tribalism and exhibits its worst in his alignment with the democratic party and their trump/republican bashing. He ignores, glosses over, or summarily dismisses topics that don't fit into his pollyanna narrative. His dismissive treatment of...  Read More

The moral worldview of any scientifically literate person requires a clean break from religious conceptions of meaning and value, but rather acceptance of good without god. To deny the power of melding theology with psychology reeks of ignorance.

Pinker has a materialist philosophy and is an atheist. Mister plinker believes that honor culture vanishing is a good thing. Pinker bases his arguments on statistics.

But couldn't get past the negative tone and overalls assumptions. Politics is not enlightenment. There was no democracy.