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• Steven Pinker at Edge: "A History of Violence"

I haven't read any of Pinker's books yet. But I think this exploration of history of violence is an excellent intro to his advocacy. It is a chronological human progress towards global peace through various phases: the Pacification Process, the Civilizing Process, the Humanitarian Revolution, the Long Peace, the New Peace, and the Rights Revolution.

• Steven Pinker's interview at Scientific American: "History and the Decline of Human Violence"

• John Horgan's review for Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of Our Nature: "Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why should you believe in world peace?"

• Alex Blasdel at The Guardian: "Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars "

This is a great article that concludes Pinker's academic controversy and proposition in the midst of glooms (rising inequality, ecological catastrophe, etc). Some accuse Pinker as a defender of status-quo and intellectual service class.

• John Gray criticizes Pinker's statistical numbers of his Long Peace idea. Gray says that "...while the seeming exactitude of statistics may be compelling, much of the human cost of war is incalculable. Deaths by violence are not all equal."

• Laura Spinney at The Guardian: "Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?"