[andrewwharton]

Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization.

I'd posit that anyone characterizing this as an apocalypse story hasn't actually read the article.

[vanderZwan]

Do any of these debates (by Pinker, Gates, etc) about neoliberal globalization address the elephant in the room that is the history of CIA interventions, and IMF and the World Bank and structural adjustments?