Yikes - article's headline is a profane insult, the first paragraph describes Pinker as a 'Jeffrey Epstein buddy' (as though that has something to do with the truth of the claims Pinker makes), and the argument hinges on the opinion of one person.

What about other measures of 'the world getting better'? Like infant mortality, literacy, school enrolment, childhood deaths from diarrhea, measles, respiratory infections?

Honestly it'd be better to visit Our World In Data than read what's clearly a hit piece.