Military historian Sofia Shirogorov criticizes Steven Pinker's work “The Best in us”, the main thesis of which - over time, people become more human, the level of violence is reduced, and the prolonged era without global wars, in fact, is not an exception to the rule, but the natural course of things. “In order to reinforce his global-historical narrative, Pinker uses statistics on violent deaths, and, especially, killings in the war.