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Future Perfect Archive

Archives for May 2018

The Big Idea
Steven Pinker’s new book on the Enlightenment is a huge hit. Too bad it gets the Enlightenment wrong.Steven Pinker’s new book on the Enlightenment is a huge hit. Too bad it gets the Enlightenment wrong.
The Big Idea

Pinker’s hyper-optimism and faith in progress have little to do with the actual views of Enlightenment thinkers. Scholars who point that out aren’t enemies of Western civilization.

By Aaron R. Hanlon
Future Perfect
America’s largest pork producer pledged to make its meat more humane. An investigation says it didn’t.America’s largest pork producer pledged to make its meat more humane. An investigation says it didn’t.
Future Perfect

An animal welfare group says Smithfield still uses gestation crates on mother pigs.

By Dylan Matthews

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