RavePittsburgh Post-GazetteHis book has two points to make: that things are much better than popular sentiment would have you believe, and that any mistrust in the merits of reason, science, and humanism is unfounded, foolish and harmful to making the world a better place. With a wealth of knowledge, graphs and statistics, a strong grasp of history, and an engaging style of writing, he not only defends the usefulness of Enlightenment ideals in the world today, he contends that they are the only stars to guide us on our way ... From confirmation biases and availability heuristics, to a paradox of rationally choosing tribal allegiance over rationality, Enlightenment Now offers up important ideas about not only the world itself, but also in how we make it our own.
