Resumen en español

Is the world really falling apart? Is the idea of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the huma condition in the third millennium, cognnitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the lurid headlines and prophecies of doom, which bring out the worst in our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: in seventy.five astonishing graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, kanwledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West but worldwide. This progess is not carried along by some cosmic force or mystical arc. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that knowledge can enhance human flourishing.