Two past articles that bear on upcoming new book

The intellectual heritage of my book It’s Better Than It Looks, about to be released, is two New Republic cover stories. The first, two decades ago, was titled America the Okay. The second, published in 2005, was titled The End of War? Note the latter came six years before Steve Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature, which is a terrific book but not the first to document the decline of violence.