Beyond Doomscrolling

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 9:18 p.m.

There\u2019s no question that 2020 has been a tough year. We're grappling with a global pandemic. A deep recession. Fresh reminders of racial injustice. But today \u2014 without minimizing the justifiable pain that 2020 has brought to so many people \u2014 we wanted to explore another way of seeing things. We talk with psychologist Steven Pinker about why it's so hard to see things that are going well in the world.