Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Need a Nuclear Program
Nor should it get its own version of the Iran deal.
March 8, 2018
A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.
In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker offers an enthusiastic defense of rationalism, liberal democracy, and human progress against religion, superstition, socialism, and totalitarianism. To John Gray, Pinker’s understanding of the 18th-century movement is woefully inadequate, his attitude toward science quickly devolves into scientism (the belief that science can provide political and moral guidance), and his view of religion is reductionist in the extreme. Gray writes:
Nor should it get its own version of the Iran deal.
A small country does the right thing.
A near-impossible problem.
A rationalist sermon delivered to a congregation of wavering souls.
An Oxford historian has absorbed anti-Semitic prejudices.
In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker offers an enthusiastic defense of rationalism, liberal democracy, and human progress against religion, superstition, socialism, and totalitarianism. To John Gray, Pinker’s understanding of the 18th-century movement is woefully inadequate, his attitude toward science quickly devolves into scientism (the belief that science can provide political and moral guidance), and his view of religion is reductionist in the extreme. Gray writes:
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