Steven Pinker’s new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows makes a compelling case for common knowledge. Shame the politics muddies the waters ...

Pinker's new book reveals how recursive mentalizing—thinking about thinking—may be the hidden engine of human life, from ...

In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon ...

The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of common sense are forced to play ...

Let us begin with a few simple propositions: (1) I know that the Harvard cognitive scientist and noted anti-wokeness crusader Steven Pinker has written a wan and blinkered book about the nature of ...

Yet the repression of controversial ideas is no longer a hallmark of theocracies and dictatorships but increasingly a fixture ...

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 ...

British biologist and writer Richard Dawkins has slammed an Australian humanist group for its “pathetic” move to withdraw support for a book tour by Harvard academic Steven Pinker over his stand ...

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 ...

Steven Pinker’s new book is a meticulous defense of science and objective analysis, a rebuttal to the tribalism, knee-jerk partisanship and disinformation that taints our politics. “Enlightenment Now” ...

It's been said that there's a Simpsons reference for everything. So why shouldn't there be one for Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American psychologist and pop-science author? Consider the episode in ...