1: “If it bleeds, it leads,” is the old adage regarding newspaper headlines.

And, it’s more true than ever today.

Yesterday, we looked at the data regarding deaths due to terrorism.

“Though terrorism poses a minuscule danger compared with other risks, it creates outsize panic and hysteria because that is what it is designed to do,” Steven Pinker writes in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and … continue reading

1: “We are living in the safest time in history,” best-selling author and Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker writes.

And he understands the “incredulity” these words evoke.

“In recent years, highly publicized terrorist attacks and rampage killings have set the world on edge and fostered an illusion that we live in newly dangerous times,” he notes.  

“In 2016, a majority of Americans named terrorism as the most important issue facing the … continue reading