Can We Annihilate War With Science?

Can We Annihilate War With Science?

In The Better Angels of our Nature, published last month, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that we have misread the evidence, which in fact shows we are becoming less violent as time moves on, due largely to the forces of modernity, or civilization. In The End of War, science writer John Horgan also challenges our views on violence. Unlike Pinker, though, he narrows the lens mostly to war, and the possibility of eradicating it.