You follow the headlines, so it probably feels like the sky is falling. As the NYT’s Roger Cohen recently wrote: “Many people I talk to … have never previously felt so uneasy about the state of the world.” But is it as bad as it seems? Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack are back to remind us things aren’t so awful: “Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times.” (Headlines like that scare me…)