Steven Pinker Declares Peace in Our Time

For years Steven Pinker has been shooting his mouth off about how peaceful the world is. It almost made you want to clobber him. Preferably with his new 832-page book. Pinker's latest tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, posits that no matter how dreadful the evening news, no matter how many security guards, house alarms, pit bulls, and conceal and carry laws we need for protection, our chances of a violent, excruciating death are much less today than in Days of Yore.