Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

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Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

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Feb 17, 2012

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Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, delivers a lecture entitled Thinking About Our Society: Why Violence Has Declined.

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Feb 17, 2012

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Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society

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