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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker · 2011

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Gwern loved it
This was really really good, as in, maybe the best book I’ve read that year.

on gwern.net · 13 Oct 2022 · Report

Jason Crawford loved it
My top book of 2017 was The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker. It's the story of how and why the world has gotten safer and more peaceful, from tribal societies to today.

on blog.rootsofprogress.org · 31 Dec 2017 · Report

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.