David Berlinski, Writer, Thinker, and Raconteur
View at YouTubeAn acclaimed author who has spent his career writing about mathematics and the sciences, Berlinski turns the scientific community’s cherished skepticism back on itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing question. For more visit his website at https://davidberlinski.org/
His latest book is Human Nature (Discovery Institute Press 2019). Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful and enlightened; man is shortly to be much improved—better genes, better neural circuits, better biochemistry; and we are approaching a technological singularity that well may usher in utopia. Human Nature eviscerates these and other doctrines of a contemporary nihilism masquerading as science. In this wide-ranging work polymath David Berlinski draws upon history, mathematics, logic, and literature to retrain our gaze on an old truth many are eager to forget: there is and will be about the human condition beauty, nobility, and moments of sublime insight, yes, but also ignorance and depravity. Men are not about to become like gods. P
raise for Human Nature: “Polymath David Berlinski’s appraisal of a transcendent human nature is really a military history, a discourse on physics and mathematics, a review of philosophy and linguistics, and a brilliant indictment of scientific groupthink by an unapologetic intellectual dissident. Read it and learn something original and incisive on every page.”—Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, author of The Second World Wars