The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

The Skeptic Research Center presents the first report in the new Civil Unrest & Presidential Election Study: Did Political Disunity Change in 2020? (CUPES-001). PLUS: From the Distinguished Science Lecture Series Archives from October 2011, we present Dr. Steven Pinker discussing his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.

In this startling and engaging new lecture, based on his latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Harvard University psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows just how violence has been diminishing for millennia and that we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence.