Subject grouping in the Essays & Articles archive.
The first of Pinchbeck’s monthly columns for Conscious Choice, from February 2007. Writing from a New York where spring flowers bloomed before Christmas, he argues that the ecological and psychic disturbances of the moment are one disturbance, and that defining the zeitgeist has become harder precisely as it has become more urgent.
A 1996 Washington Post review of Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. The book argues that human male violence descends from patterns visible in chimpanzees, and that the peaceable, sexually promiscuous bonobos living across the Zaire River point to an alternative rooted in female social bonds. Pinchbeck endorses the authors’ feminist optimism over more Machiavellian readings of human nature.