The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

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up to a big book—big enough that it won’t spoil the story if I preview its major conclusions. The Better Angels of Our Nature

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writing, “A man may shoot the man who invades his character, as he may shoot him who

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