There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a... →
Steven Pinker
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work... →
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might... →
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people... →
Roman Polanski
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware... →
Chaim Potok
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are... →
Ezra Pound