Well, he is frequently met with outright ridicule. But to be fair, he does address those points. I haven’t read his stuff for a while, but I think he argued tha

Well, he is frequently met with outright ridicule. But to be fair, he does address those points. I haven’t read his stuff for a while, but I think he argued that, even with the two world wars and all the other atrocities of the 20th century, there were still fewer violent deaths per capita than in the previous century. I don’t agree with everything Pinker says but there does appear to be a statistical fact that fewer people die from violence each century. He looks for for explanations for this general trend.