Today, most discussions about poverty involve who is to blame for it, observes Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. 

This line of thinking is misguided, he believes.  

Poverty needs no explanation.

“In a world governed by entropy and evolution, it is the default state of humankind.  Matter does not arrange itself into shelter or clothing, and living things do everything they can to … continue reading