Topic: Steven Pinker - CSMonitor.com

'No more hurting people.' Will a safer future follow Boston tragedy's wake?

Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bomb attack, once held a sign that said 'peace' and 'no more hurting people.' Research finds a pattern of lessening violence as human history moves forward.

Love impels progress

Flying to center field with the boys of autumn

Readers Write: Homeownership isn't all bad – or good; EU is a model for peace

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Bestselling books the week of 10/20/11, according to IndieBound*

The Monitor's View Euro heroes in Germany?

Fall books: 20 nonfiction titles you don't want to miss

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: secular humanist with a soul

The Best American Essays 2010

Are iPads, smartphones, and the Mobile Web rewiring the way we think?

Hamlet’s BlackBerry

Weathering the Olympics: how science and sport meet on the bottom of a ski

Dispute Finder: Making the call on Web ‘facts’

Roberts, Obama, and the myth of the 'split verb'