2 thoughts on “John Gray on the decline of violence”

  1. Gray is basically reiterating his response from when Pinker’s book came out in 2011:

    http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/john-gray-steven-pinker-violence-review

    Timothy Snyder takes much the same view:

    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136957/timothy-snyder/war-no-more

    But the most hostile review of all is that of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, who dismiss Pinker’s thesis as “Reality Denial” and “Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence”:

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/reality-denial-apologetics-for-western-imperial-violence/32066