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 ...

In his last outing, How the Mind Works, the author of the well-received The Language Instinct made a case for evolutionary psychology—or the view that human beings have a hard-wired nature that ...

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 ...

Even with all the bad news going on — the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, economic worries, whatever — Steven Pinker remains optimistic that the human species is making progress.

In the controversial yet bestselling books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, Harvard linguist Steven Pinker made the case that humanity has been getting richer and less violent ...

On May 24, 2023, Steven Pinker and Richard Thaler, two of the world’s leading behavioral scientists, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on rationality, AI, overcoming collective action problems, and ...

‘Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe,” the comedian George Carlin once observed, “and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk may be cheap, and actions may speak louder than words. Nevertheless, rhetoric matters. It arouses passions, noble and base.

The Epstein files revive questions of whether the disgraced financier sought to merely cultivate famous scientists, or to shape science itself ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In December 2016, a North Carolina man armed with a rifle entered a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., in order to halt what he believed was a child ...