Steven Pinker’s ‘Progressophobia’
While Steven Pinker is right in asserting that things are much better for humanity today than they were in the past, any assumption that such progress will continue into the future may be based more on hope than on eval uation (“Progressophobia,” May/ June 2018). Serious problems in the past have often spawned solutions, but for too many contemporary problems, solutions may be difficult or even impractical.