before we go further, I must address a nagging issue for the reader—my assumption that human nature itself will not improve. How do I know this? I don’t. But I assume it to be true. To explain why, let me confront the argument made by the most serious and articulate spokesman for the belief that human nature, is, in fact, improving: Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, whose 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, was an intellectual event.
