Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Burke, Edmund, 341, 363, 366

Burkina Faso, 203

Burma. See Myanmar

Burroughs, William S., 456n10

Burtless, Gary, 115

Burundi, 141, 161, 475n30

Bush, George W.

African AIDS relief policy of, 67

among know-nothings, 374–5

disdain for science and, 60, 387, 389

and nuclear weapons, 291, 319

prescription drug benefit of, 109

wealth creation malaprop, 81

Buturovic, Zeljka, 362

Cambodia, 78, 147, 161, 238

Cameroon, 162

Campbell, David, 432

Campbell, Joseph, 456n1

Camus, Albert, 446

Canada

child mortality and, 56

depression and, 282

economic freedom in, 365, 483n39

education in, 237

emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227

and escape from poverty, 85

happiness and well-being, 438–9, 475n30

homicide rates in, 171

populism and, 341

secularization and, 436, 437, 438–9

social spending in, 108, 109, 365, 483n39

cancer, 61, 146

Cantril, Hadley, 266, 359

capitalism

authoritarian, China and, 90, 201, 203–4, 343

as coexisting with regulations, 364, 365

as coexisting with social spending, 364, 365, 483nn39,42

and cultures, 85

and Great Escape from poverty, 90–91, 364

unbridled/unregulated/untrammeled, 364

See also commerce; economic inequality; economics

capital punishment

abolition of, 208–213, 209

cognitive bias study referencing, 359–60

homosexual behavior criminalized, 223

Capp, Al, 297

Caracas, Venezuela, 172

carbon tax, 139, 145–6, 149

Carey, John, 247

Caribbean countries, 89, 175, 201, 203

Carlson, Robert, 307

Carroll, Sean, 385

Carter Center, 65

Carter, Jimmy, 67

Carter, Richard, 63–4

Castro, Fidel, 376–7, 447, 484n79

Catholic Church, education and, 234

Catholic countries, emancipative values in, 227, 227

Catholics, 222, 437, 440

Central African Republic, 95, 162, 236

Central Asia, democratization and, 206

Chad, 160, 162

Chalk, Frank, 160–61

Chalmers, David, 425–6

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 398

Chaplin, Charlie, 186

charitable giving

Effective Altruism, 381

as factor in happiness, 271

Charlie Hebdo massacre, 370

Chase, Chevy, 266

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 181

Chávez, Hugo, 91, 171, 447

Chekhov, Anton, 284, 387

Chenoweth, Erica, 405

Chernobyl disaster (1986), 146

child mortality, 55–7, 56, 58, 66–7, 66, 125

children, 228–30

abuse of, 229

bullying at school, 229

child labor, 230–32, 231

child marriage ban, 222

childrearing in emancipative values, 224

corporal punishment of, 229–30

negative media coverage of, 229

stunting due to undernourishment, 70–71, 71

trafficking in, 232

See also child mortality; education; teenagers

Chile

child mortality and, 56

earthquake (2010), 188

education and literacy in, 236, 238

GDP of, 85

military government of, 200

poverty in, 91

China

An Lushan Rebellion, 484n77

authoritarian capitalism of, 90, 201, 203–4, 343

Axial Age and, 23

calories available per person in, 70, 70

capital punishment in, 209–210

carbon emissions of, 143, 143, 144

childhood stunting in, 71, 71

Chinese Civil War, 49, 158, 160, 199

Cultural Revolution (1966–75), 91, 161, 208

democratization and, 206

education in, 237, 237, 238

escape from poverty of, 85, 86, 90

famine in, 69, 72, 78

GDP of, 85

globalization and, 111

Great Leap Forward (1958–61), 78, 91

Great Recession and, 112

human rights in, 208, 208

mass killings (genocide deaths) in, 161

nuclear power and, 147, 150

nuclear weapons and, 313, 317, 318, 320

per capita income of, 86

perception of the world as getting better, 457n8

population-control program of, 74

quality of life and, 247

secularization and, 436

social spending in, 109

Tiananmen Square protests, 208

traffic death rates in, 178

and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 419

China Syndrome, The (film), 147–8

chlorofluorocarbons ban (1987), 134

Chomsky, Noam, 443, 456n1

Christian militias, 162

Christians and Christianity

humanist denominations, 412

killings by ISIS, 162

Nietzsche’s rejection of, 444

religiosity of nation-states in world wars, 429–30

theoconservatism, 448–9

wars of religion, 8, 10, 364, 450, 488n46

See also Bible; Evangelical Christians

Churchill, Winston, 205, 341

Cicero, 397

Cipolla, Carlo, 79–80

cities. See cosmopolitanism; urbanization

civic associations, 235, 432, 447, 472n12

Civilizing Process, 43

civil wars, 158, 466n11

cost of, 91

decline of, after Cold War, 91, 158–60, 164

famine and, 78

terrorist deaths primarily taking place in, 193

uptick in the mid-2010s, 158–60

Claremont Institute, 448, 491n118

classical Greece and Rome

Aryan/Romantic hero theory and, 33, 398, 444

Axial Age and, 23

and democracy, 212, 381

execution of Socrates, 58, 212

racism and slavery in, 397

suicide and, 278

theistic morality and, 428, 431

See also Plato

classical liberalism. See Enlightenment, the

Clemenceau, Georges, 341

climate change, 136–54

carbon capture and storage, 150–51

carbon taxes, 139, 145–6, 149

climate justice movement, 138–9, 141–2

cognitive impediments to understanding, 140

decarbonization, 142–6, 143–4, 150–52

denial of, 137, 138, 139, 357

depoliticizing the discourse of, 382

geoengineering solutions, 150–51, 152–4, 382–3

nuclear power and, 144–5, 146–50, 465n76

Paris agreement, 134, 152, 335, 449

religious Cornwall Declaration on, 287