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A review by dsbs42
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
3.0
Now, more than ever, I wish Goodreads let you give half stars. 3.5, I think. I appreciate the depth and breadth of the research and arguments, and there's a whole damned lot to think about here, which is always nice, and ideally what you read for, at least sometimes, but there was also a hell of a lot of generalizations, old-white-man condescending (did you know racism and sexism are over in uber-feminist Western democracies? I sure as hell didn't!), and boy I'd like to know how this book would look if it were written now rather than 9 years ago.