Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress, by Steven Pinker Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against ‘progressophobes’ By Biancamaria Fontana 22 February
The Infidel and the Professor, by Dennis C. Rasmussen Book of the week: How far did two thinkers sway each other during a 26-year fellowship? Biancamaria Fontana writes By Biancamaria Fontana 14 September
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind, by A. C. Grayling An account of the vanquishing of superstition and magic makes some imprudent leaps, says Biancamaria Fontana By Biancamaria Fontana 24 March
