The debate on the decline of violence is starting to heat up. Here’s John Gray on why Pinker’s got it wrong: http://t.co/jIvWKZ27Pr Log in to Reply
Gray is basically reiterating his response from when Pinker’s book came out in 2011: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review Timothy Snyder takes much the same view: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136957/timothy-snyder/war-no-more But the most hostile review of all is that of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, who dismiss Pinker’s thesis as “Reality Denial” and “Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066 Log in to Reply
The debate on the decline of violence is starting to heat up. Here’s John Gray on why Pinker’s got it wrong: http://t.co/jIvWKZ27Pr
Gray is basically reiterating his response from when Pinker’s book came out in 2011:
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review
Timothy Snyder takes much the same view:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136957/timothy-snyder/war-no-more
But the most hostile review of all is that of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, who dismiss Pinker’s thesis as “Reality Denial” and “Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence”:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066