1: Many people believe that we live in the worst of times and that things continue to get worse.
Nothing could be farther from the truth, Steven Pinker writes in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.
How do we know this is true?
Data.
In prior RiseWithDrews, we’ve looked at a number of incredible trends: the mind-boggling uptick in prosperity, the dramatic decline … continue reading
Much of the discussion around poverty centers on who is to blame.
“Few people believe that accidents or diseases have perpetrators,” writes Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Â
Yet “discussions of poverty consist mostly of arguments about whom to blame for it.”
Wrong question, Steven believes.
Poverty “needs no explanation. In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default … continue reading
