Pinker brings his message of hope to Trudeau

Canadian-born author Steven Pinker explores, with the help of 75 graphs and charts, how life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are all on the rise, despite the proliferation of negative news.

Lunch with the lads: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on March 26, with author Steven Pinker in his Centre Block office on the Hill. Photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

May 7, 2018

Just a couple of weeks ago, Harvard professor and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker sat down in Centre Block with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to talk about enlightenment and modern liberal democracy. The Montreal native’s latest book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Human...

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