But don't worry, any criticism of Pinker is going to fly right above his head, and the Quillette crowd will say that we're all postmodern neomarxists for even objecting to him.
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Reading this thread in conjunction with Moyn's article, the core of his objection seems to be that Pinker doesn't give enough weight to climate change and inequality. (That's the "other stuff going on" that he refers to.) On the latter he is right, on the former he overstates.
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His other criticisms range from the important (straw-manning of opponents) to the relatively trivial (uncontextualised quotations) - but even taken all together, I don't see how you can say this is a devastating critique of Pinker's arguments.
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