Enlightenment Now
The book makes a case for reason, science, humanism and progress. You might wonder if it really needs to be made, but 450 pages have been devoted to address the rebuttal for the author’s earlier work on a similar subject! While that is done eloquently, my skepticism arises from the definition of progress and how it manifests in the specific human condition. We are better off when we measure ourselves based on past societal indices, but I am not sure the indices of the future will tell the same story.