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

expressive rationality. See identity-protective cognition

extinction

of human species, 294–5

mass extinctions, 133

rebound of species, 130, 133, 463n32

extraterrestrial life, 166, 308

Facebook, 255, 256

faitheism, 31–2, 430

and existential questions, 433

Islamic antihumanism, apologists for, 441–2

negative vs. positive effects of religion, 431–3

religion as human need, 430–31

religious doctrine as allegory, 431, 489n53

and science, disdain for, 430

spirituality and, 433–5

See also intellectuals; theism and theistic morality

Falkland Islands, 315

falls, deaths from, 181–2, 182, 468n50

Falwell, Jerry, 294

family life, time for, 255–6, 256

famine. See under food and food security

Fanon, Frantz, 39–40, 405

FARC guerrillas, 158

Fariss, Christopher, 207

fascism

and decline of democratic governments, 200

Italian, 445, 446

neo-fascism, 419, 448, 451

Nietzsche as inspiring, 445, 448

populism and, 448, 491n118

See also Nazi Germany

fatalism

about accidents, 185

from consuming negative news, 42

from environmentalism, 121

from the Negativity bias, 47

from warnings of existential threats, 292

fate

denial of among successful forecasters, 370

as refuted by scientific revolution, 24, 394

“spirituality” as belief in, 434

See also fatalism; purpose, absence of in nature

female genital mutilation, 222

Fermi Paradox, 308

Feshbach, Herman, 308

Feynman, Richard, 390

Finkelhor, David, 229

Finland, 115, 457n8, 475n30, 489n68

fire and smoke deaths, 182–3, 182

Fischer, Claude, 274–5, 475n46

fisheries, 325

Flanders & Swann, 15

Flannery, Tim, 465n76

Flaubert, Gustave, 284

Fleming, Alexander, 63

flood control, 188

Florey, Howard, 64

Flynn effect, 240–45, 241

atheism and, 438

Flynn, James, 240, 243, 244

Foege, William, 64, 65

Fogel, Robert, 68–9

Follett, Chelsea, 93

Fonda, Jane, 147–8

Fontane, Theodor, 284

food and food security, 19, 68–78, 70–73

achievement of, as energy capture, 23–4

nutritional quality and IQ rise, 241–2

obesity epidemic, 69, 117

undernourishment, 70–72, 71–2

See also agriculture

—DIET

diversification of, 259–60

of hunter-gatherers, 23

toxic, danger of (omnivore’s dilemma), 167

—FAMINE, 68–9, 72–4, 73, 78

and fear of population explosion, 73–4

governments exacerbating, 78, 459nn35–36

nuclear winter as producing, 308

in twentieth century, 72–3, 78, 459n36

Ford, Gerald, 275

forecasting tournaments, 368–71, 380, 393, 404

foreign aid, 95

Forster, E. M., 257

Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, 445

Fortna, Virginia Page, 196–7, 404

fossil fuels. See coal; energy; petroleum

Foucault, Michel, 39–40, 397, 406, 446, 447

fracking, 143

France

calories available per person, 70, 70

emancipative values in, 225–7, 226, 227

famine in, 69

nuclear power and, 147, 148

nuclear weapons and, 317, 318, 320

populism and, 338–9, 341

poverty and, 79

rights, declaration of, 411

Second French War of Religion, 484n77

secularization and, 436, 437

social spending in, 108, 109

suicide and, 278

terrorism and, 219

Francis, Pope, 97, 122, 129, 142

Frankfurt, Harry, 98–9

Franklin, Benjamin, 359

Frank, Robert, 124

freedom

anxiety and, 285

happiness in relation to, 265–6, 271

hierarchy of needs and, 224

of modernity, 284–5

negative vs. positive, 265

to screw up your life, 344

See also democracy; emancipative values

freedom of religion, 417

freedom of speech

bioethics violating, 402

education and appreciation for, 235

as emancipative value, 224

populism and devaluing of, 333

as remedy for cognitive biases, 28, 202, 353, 390

utilitarianism and, 417

wealth of countries and, 96

freedom of the press, 336

Friedman, Milton, 119

Friends of the Earth, 465n76

Fukushima accident (2011), 146

Fukuyama, Francis, 201, 203

Furman, Jason, 117

Gaddafi, Muammar, 447

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 206

Galileo, 24

Galton, Francis, 399

Galtung, John, 41

game theory, 164, 386

See also Hobbesian trap (security dilemma); pacifist’s dilemma; Tragedy of the Commons

Gandhi, Indira, 131

Gandhi, Mohandas, 405, 418. See also nonviolent resistance

Gapminder (Web site), xviii, 52

Gates, Bill, 66, 67, 330, 481n16

gay rights. See homosexuality and homophobia

GDP (Gross Domestic Product), 85, 95–6, 461n7

carbon emissions per dollar of, 143, 143

emancipative values as correlated with, 228

Flynn effect as increasing, 242, 244–5

and global well-being, 245–6, 246, 473n45

happiness as increasing with, 269–71, 269, 272

information technology invisible in, 332–3

misleading, potentially. See paradox of value

quality of life and, 95

social spending as percentage of, 107–8, 108, 110, 483n39

Gelman, Andrew, 342

gender. See sex differences

General Social Survey, 273, 288

generational effects. See cohort effects

Generation X, 225

depression and, 476n74

digital technology and, 244

happiness and, 273

suicide and, 280

genetically modified organisms, 77–8, 331

genetics

behavioral genetics, and literary scholarship, 407

individuality of, 25

medical and behavioral, vs. eugenics, 399–400

genocide, 160–62, 161, 397, 466–7nn14,16

gentle commerce. See under commerce

Georgia (country), 86, 203, 335

Georgia (state), capital punishment in, 211

Germany