![]() a genuinely enlightening book - Jan-Werner Muller * Financial Times * Today we are living healthier, wealthier lives - and it's thanks to the values of the Enlightenment. Everyone should read this book and, just for once, be enthralled by what humankind has achieved - Iain Macwhirter * Herald * Brimming with surprising data and entertaining anecdotes. ![]() a cheerful, contrarian tract for dark times - Niall Ferguson * Sunday Times * A goldmine of startling graphs and killer facts about the way we live now. Things are not as bad as your Facebook news feed makes them seem. The confidence with which Pinker tears through the issues that cause such deep anxiety today is compelling - William Davies * Guardian * A characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present - Sam Leith * Spectator * A new, optimistic view of the world. for most people, life is better, even if they don't realise it - Dominic Sandbrook * Daily Mail * Awesome. ![]() Not just a bit right, but completely, utterly, incontrovertibly right. ![]() It's about the many ways in which the world is improving, and why we don't believe it - Fraser Nelson * Spectator * Pinker is right. My new favourite book of all time - Bill Gates Exhilarating, magnificent, uplifting * Economist * This is the biggest story of our time. ![]()
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