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Ep. 435: Steven Pinker Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The History of Violence

You can't get an accurate picture of the amount of violence in the world from reading the news, he says. Englishmen had a 35 times greater chance of being murdered in the Middle Ages compared to now. Vietnam fought a war after that with China but for several decades it has been at peace. The rate of homicide in countries for which we have data going back centuries has plummeted.

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