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The Better Angels of Our Nature

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What this book knows

Violence has declined across history because expanding reason, empathy, and institutions gradually overcome our inner demons.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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obedience-and-authority

Kennedy had read Tuchman's The Guns of August and knew that an international game of chicken driven by personal honor could spiral into catastrophe.
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Distinguished military historians used giddy phrases like 'a change of spectacular proportions' and 'nothing like this in history' to describe the Long Peace.
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mind-and-cognition

Norms among influential constituencies may have evolved to incorporate the conviction that war is inherently immoral because of its costs to human well-being.
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The use of a single tactical nuclear weapon would be seen as a breach in history, a passage into a new world with unimaginable consequences.
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ambition-and-status

Can we identify some development that blossomed in the postwar years and that we have reason to believe is a generic force against war?
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The dueler is open, honest, and strong; the poisoner fraudulent, scheming, and weak—a contrast encoding honor as public, masculine, and openly declared.
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