Can things only get better?
b'The "ape bumfodder" of one man (Philip Larkin) is another man\'s treasure \\u2013 Susan Irvine makes the case for the relevance of Old English literature in the modern world (and leaves us with a beautiful reading of "The Husband\'s Message", a poem told from the perspective of a wooden staff...); the Whiggish idea of constant societal improvement has, as its most high-profile advocate, Steven Pinker, whose \'The Better Angels of our Nature\' caused a stir in 2011. Now he\'s back with \'Enlightenment Now\', another data-heavy work of optimism \\u2013 David Wootton weighs up the evidence
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