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Pinker, Politics, and the Decline of Violence: Roundtable on “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Steven Pinker's book. Steven Pinker's book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," has been getting substantial media attention this year, and it makes what many see as a surprising and counterintuitive claim about the decline of violence in human evolutionary history. Now, the academics weigh in. This year's meeting of the International Studies Association featured a panel organized exclusively around Pinker's book.