'Burying the Hatchet': James Q. Wilson Reviews Steven Pinker's 'Better Angels of Our Nature'

This is interesting, at Wall Street Journal, "The long, arduous and incomplete process of civilizing humankind and suppressing its most violent impulses." (Via Small Dead Animals.)

SIDE NOTE: James Q. Wilson is an eminent political scientist and past president of the American Political Science Association. If the profession cultivated more scholars like him I'd express more hope for the discipline.

And check the book at Amazon: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.