Conquest, War, Famine, and Death—except for the last, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse have lost their ability to terrify us. They have been reduced, as a Google search will swiftly demonstrate, to metaphors for bad habits in personal relationships: “criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling.” But for most of human history, the horsemen’s shadows were neve (...)
January 27, 2012
Books
Interesting if True
The Better Angels of Our NatureWhy Violence Has DeclinedSteven PinkerViking, $40, 832 pp.
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