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

Romanticism as, 30, 351

romantic militarism and, 165–6

See also fascism; intellectuals; nationalism; populism; religion; romantic heroism; Romanticism; science, disdain for

Counts, George, 234

Coyne, Jerry, 422, 430

Crawford, Jarret, 373

creationism, 19, 22, 356, 387, 398

Crick, Francis, 386

Crimea, annexation by Russia (2014), 164, 335

criminal punishment, 11, 12, 174, 439. See also capital punishment; violent crime

CRISPR-CAS9 gene-editing, 306–7

Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), 396–7, 406, 446

critical thinking instruction, 377–8

Croatia, 203

Cronin, Audrey, 196–7

Cronon, William, 123

Cruz, Ted, 336

Cuba, 206, 247, 376–7, 447, 484n79

Cuban Missile Crisis, 309, 312, 479n93

cultures, human development of, 23

cybernetics, 21–2

Czech Republic, 341, 489n68

d’Alembert, Jean-Baptiste, 10

Dante, 63

Darfur, 162

Darwin, Charles

Argument from Design refuted by, 421

death of children of, 56

falsely tied to scientific racism, 398, 400, 486n32

falsely tied to Social Darwinism, 398–9, 400

on humans as single species, 398

and replicating systems and evolution, 18–19

See also evolution; natural selection

data, 42–3, 44–5, 48

dataphobic mindset, 48, 49, 404–5

literary scholarship and science of, 408

most recent date for graphs in book, 156, 466n1

objections to use of, 44–7

sources of, 52

See also objective measurement; prediction

Davies’s Corollary. See Stein’s Law

Dawkins, Richard, 430, 455n6, 488n7

Deaton, Angus, 54, 56, 62, 67, 89, 92, 103–4, 269, 272, 459n16

Declaration of Independence, 12, 413

declinism, 32–3, 165. See also intellectuals; pessimism

Deconstructionism, 352, 446. See also Derrida, Jacques; Foucault, Michel; postmodernism

deep decarbonization, 145–6, 150

“deepity,” 433

“deep state,” 337, 448

Deepwater Horizon accident, 132

deforestation, 130, 131

and climate change, 136

reforestation, 76, 130, 134, 150, 459n25

DeFries, Ruth, 122, 128

Dehaene, Stanislas, 426

deism and deists, 8

Enlightenment thinkers as, 18, 22

Hitler as, 430

and morality, 422

dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, 59, 327

democracy, 199–213

civics-class ideal of, 204, 206

contributor to flourishing, 199–200, 470n4

criteria for measuring, 201–2, 470n15

education of populace and, 235

fall of Berlin Wall and, 163, 200–201, 203

and Fukuyama’s “end of history,” 201

negative freedom and, 265

three waves of, 200–201, 202–3, 202

Trump and disdain for, 335–6, 337, 374

undermining of, 335, 374

voter ignorance in, 204

voter turnout, 343, 438

voting and elections in, 204–5, 381

war reduced by, 162–3

See also freedom of speech; human rights

Democratic Party

and climate change, 357

increased partisanship of, 371–2

innumeracy of, on polarized topics, 361

journalists in, 484n54

See also political ideologies of left and right

demographic transition, 125, 135–6, 436. See also population

demonetization, 332–3

Deng Xiaoping, 90

Denmark, 438–9, 451, 475n30, 483n39

Dennett, Daniel, 427, 430, 433

Denney, Reuel, 274

deontological ethics, 416–18

depression, 280–83, 284, 476n74

Derrida, Jacques, 406, 446

Descartes, René, Cogito ergo sum, 352

DeScioli, Peter, 415

Deutsch, David, ix, 7, 46, 295–6, 392, 410

developed countries/world, 96

life expectancy inequalities, 54–5, 95–6

lower middle classes affected by globalization, 112, 113, 118–19, 339, 340

maternal mortality changes in, 57–8, 57

natural disaster resilience of, 187–9, 188

Secularization Thesis and, 435–6, 438

social spending as universal to, 110, 115

developing countries/world, 96

calorie availability in, 70, 70

child labor and, 232

digital technology adoption by, 244

and environmental problems, awareness of, 124

escape from poverty of, 85–6, 85

Green Revolution in, 75–8

infectious disease improvements in, 67

life expectancy inequalities in, 54–5, 59, 95–6

maternal mortality changes in, 57–8, 57

natural disaster vulnerability of, 188–9

pollution in, 130–31, 463n28

safe drinking water and, 130–31, 463n28

social spending in, 109–110

undernourishment and stunting in, 70–72, 71–2

Devereux, Stephen, 72–3, 459nn35–36

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), 281, 282

Diamandis, Peter, 330

Diamond, Jared, 450–51, 465n76

diarrhea, childhood deaths from, 66

Dickens, Charles, 230, 249

Diderot, Denis, 10, 13

Didion, Joan, 456n1

digital manufacturing, 330–31

disaster sociology, 305

disease. See health; infectious disease; medicine

dishwashers, 252

Disraeli, Benjamin, 130, 341

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 284

DNA

discovery of, 386

information accumulation and evolution of, 20

testing of, and wrongful capital punishment, 212

Doctorow, E. L., 456n1

Dominican Republic, 188

Doobie Brothers, 147

Doomsday Clock, 308–9, 311

Douglas, Michael, 147–8

drowning deaths, 182, 182

drugs, illegal

overdose deaths from, 182, 183, 184–5

violence produced by, 175–6

drugs, pharmaceutical

for depression, 281, 282

and infectious disease improvements, 67

“miracle drugs” no better than placebo, 61

for “orphan diseases,” 333

overdose deaths from, 182, 183, 184–5

side effects worse than the disease, 61

See also medicine

drunk driving, 178