Steven Pinker: False Friend of the Enlightenment

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Jacobin Magazine 1 (2018)
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Steven Pinker's technocratic liberalism has nothing to do with the radical spirit of the Enlightenment: Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now is a manual for liberal self-congratulation. This preening tome professes a pragmatic and quantitative approach to the world’s problems. For Pinker, modern capitalist democracy has basically gotten things right, and activism should at most consist of pushing for minor improvements, mitigating bad symptoms around the edges.

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