Steven Pinker is at it again. Several years ago, the Harvard-based cognitive psychologist took time off regular duties to offer some gratuitous advice to humanities scholars about how to "fix" their discipline.
In essence, he advised, be more like the scientists, and please stop pointing out that there are occasional downsides to advances in science and technology.
Frustrated by the ingratitude of his target audience and impatient with their churlish resistance to his recommendations, he has taken it upon himself to show us how it should be done with a new book on the Enlightenment, its legacy and why we need to stand behind it today.
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