What Pinker Gets Wrong

Pinker's work can be best summed up as technocratic neo liberalism. He puts his trust in free markets and the guidance of enlightened scientists and moguls. Pinker proclaims issue should be depoliticized as much as is feasible. Some critics say that your book though, is less of a reasoned scientific argument, more of a polemic. And i think that kind of sums up the technocratic push that kind of underlies all o pinker's work.

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