Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later You wouldn’t think that a defense of reason, science, and humanism would be particularly controversial in an era in which those ideals would seem to need all the help they can get. But in the words of a colleague, “You’ve made people’s heads explode!” Many people who Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 49 min read