Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Sep 2025 on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg.
The general take
Rand Paul calls Enlightenment Now an amazing book and is particularly impressed by its historical charts spanning all of human history, which he finds extraordinary.
About
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality . Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.
Who said what
Rand Paul👍 Recommends
…citing steven pinker's book on historical prosperity and progress
“His book, Enlightenment Now, is an amazing book. But anyway, this chart is for all of human history... that just is extraordinary.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for Americaat 13:41
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