Reject Enlightenment Malaise, Embrace Tradition: Sohrab Ahmari’s ‘Unbroken Thread’ Offers A Solution For A Chaotic Age

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Sometime before the Earth-tilting events of the earlier months of 2020, the psychologist Steven Pinker authored “Enlightenment Now” — a brick-sized tome which made the case that empirical reasoning and liberal humanism had birthed a world of glittering progress, with humans living freer, healthier and safer lives across the world.

There were two lines of dissent from Pinker’s conclusions. One was more materialist: emphasizing the scale of global inequality, or existential risk. But one was more spiritual, dwelling on the scale of family breakdown, drug addiction, loneliness and anomie.


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