Pinker believes that every generation needs to rediscover the significance of the Enlightenment and its tendency to result in a healthier, happier, more peaceful populace around the world. But his attempt to make the case for the Enlightenment is exhausting and desperately needed an editor. An editor also might have discouraged his habit of setting up straw men, only to knock them down (to the extent that he feels the need to demonstrate that he is *not* setting up a “straw Ubermensch” in Nietszche by extensively quoting from his works) (444). As Pinker himself points out, “The case for Enlightenment Now is not just a matter of debunking fallacies or disseminating data. It may be cast as a stirring narrative, and I hope that people with more artistic flair and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further” (452). Me, too.