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The surprising decline in violence

  • ️Steven Pinker

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TED2007

• March 2007

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.