![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Though, to be fair, The New York Times has also published positive reviews.) But it’s not just progressives conservatives like Ross Douthat and Andrew Sullivan have also rejected Pinker’s paean to human progress. Steven Pinker has already been proven right on at least one of the points he raises in Enlightenment Now: “Intellectuals hate progress,” he writes in a chapter titled “Progressophobia.” “Intellectuals who call themselves ‘progressive’,” he goes on, “ really hate progress.” The many acerbic responses to his book in the pages of high-brow magazines have borne this out in spades.įrom The New Stateman and The Nation, to The New York Times, The Evening Standard, ABC Religion and Ethics, and The American Spectator, major publications are rushing to give the disgruntled intelligentsia a platform to gripe about Pinker’s woefully misguided-or loathsomely inconvenient-arguments and views. ![]()
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