Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the ...

United Nations-- The headlines from around the world are gloomy; millions are starving, children dying in war zones, pandemics, trade wars and terror attacks. But ...

L ast month, Steven Pinker published Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. The book represents yet another milestone in the author’s slide from world-renowned linguist and ...

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Professor Steven Pinker, hailed as a free-thinking intellectual, slammed efforts by Chris Rufo and others to stop woke indoctrination in schools. Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, ...

Cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker writes about the differences between the liberal and conservative mindsets. Excerpts: Conservative thinkers like the economist Thomas Sowell and the Times columnist ...

On Oct. 13, 1660, Samuel Pepys, arguably one of the more refined men of his day, wrote in his diary: "Out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered." This meant the ...

Steven Pinker is the very model of a modern intellectual. Since the 1994 publication of his first bestseller, The Language Instinct, he's been known for his ability to boil down complex ideas into ...

Steven Pinker’s book is a polemic, although he claims the op­posite: “This is not a book of En­lightenolatry.” But by his account, the Enlightenment and its values of reason, science, humanism, and ...

A pointed essay last month by the renowned Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker reignited the academic culture wars between the sciences and humanities. In the article, Science is Not Your Enemy: An ...

Steven Pinker irks many of his fellow intellectuals. I’ve knocked him myself for his views on postmodernism and the origins of war, and he’s knocked me back. I am nonetheless a longtime admirer of the ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he’s right, Steven Pinker can get ...