Tough on Crime: A liberal’s admission that increased law enforcement works

Steven Pinker’s most recent tome, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, attempts to document and explain the dramatic decrease in war, murder, and state-sanctioned violence since the dawn of civilization. He examines several distinct phenomena spanning over millennia, ranging from the advent of the state, to the near extinction of interstate … Read more

Nostalgic for America’s Holy Texts

In Steven Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, the author begins his tour of the past with what many politicians proudly profess to be the source of their faith and American law: the Bible. We know that the Bible’s time period was neither as holy nor as peaceful as Sunday school … Read more