A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I ought to read Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.  I had read a review in National Review Online that reported on Pinker's antipathy to religion. Okay, I said – so what is Pinker's religion?  It is an article of faith for me that everyone has a religion. Fortunately, Pinker resolves the question on the first page of the book, by answering a question put to him by a young woman: "Why should I live?"  He replies: In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you.  And there are so many reasons to live! Pinker follows up by writing that he believes in the ideals of the Enlightenment, that "we can apply reason and sympathy to enhance human...(Read Full Article)