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Podcast: What You Will Learn
Episode: Enlightenment Now
Description: In Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker explains the impact of Enlightenment values – reason, science, and humanism – on the world. These values were instrumental in moving society forward, and Pinker worries that they are under threat.Humans have achieved a whole bunch of cool shit over the ages. Unfortunately, we take it for granted. Progress has a very funny way of erasing its tracks as we move forward as a species.The local supermarket is overflowing with food. You’ve got clean water on tap. You drop your waste in the toilet, and with a click...