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#12 - Looking Down on Optimism

War of Ideas by Cody Cimbal

Sep 21, 201843:21News & Politics

In this episode, I talk about Steven Pinker's critics attacking him and his new book showing how the world is getting better. I connect these critiques to a larger scale problem in society to help show the raw thought pr...

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#12 - Looking Down on Optimism is an episode from War of Ideas by Cody Cimbal. In this episode, I talk about Steven Pinker's critics attacking him and his new book showing how the world is getting better. I connect these critiques to a larg...

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