Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

rise of democratic governments after, 200

and romantic militarism, 166, 451

See also Long Peace; Nazi Germany

Wright, Quincy, 418

XKCD webcomic, 127, 128, 430

Y2K Panic, 293–4

Yazidi people, 162

Yeats, William Butler, 446, 447

yellow fever, 62

Yemen, 73, 160, 222

Yong, Keehup, 490n87

Yousafzai, Malala, 232, 240, 443

youth. See teenagers

Yugoslavia, former republics of, 227, 227

Zelizer, Viviana, 230

Zencey, Eric, 293

Zimbabwe, 91

Zola, Émile, 165

Zoroastrianism, 23

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