A review by adam12
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This is an excellent book to remember why being alive today is not the deeply violent world media would lead you to believe it is. However, the repetitiveness of the text and repeated shallow insights on the source material is frustrating. I recommend this book only to folks with the time (and gut) to get through it. It is about 200 pages longer than it needed to be, and if it were 200 pages shorter it would have been very good.
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