Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
Steven Pinker has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. The short form of The Better Angels of Our Nature is that we’re on the verge of Candide’s “best of all possible worlds.”
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Zeb and Haniya: the healing charm of “Urdu blues”
Zeb and Haniya, the Pakistani song duo, could set you to wondering all over again why musicians aren’t asked to run the world. In their studio in Lahore, we are puzzling how they make it look so easy to teach us new songs? to give East and West fresh tunes on stage — as so few can do off-stage?
