Is conflict humanity's natural state? Could we ever agree on a set of values? The knee-jerk response for any student of ...

How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkers ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Psychologist Steven Pinker has a PhD from Harvard and is a professor there. He's also taught at Stanford and MIT. He's published 10 books and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He's been ...

Let’s get one thing out of the way. With Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker has written the best book on progress that is currently in print. Or e-book. Or audiobook. That is no little accomplishment.

"There are many battles of history that were lost because of botched communication," says Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. In today's workplace where email and Slack ...

Bill Gates' favorite author recently published a new book — and Gates has already called it his "favorite book of all time," on his blog. Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard and the ...

Earlier this month, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker published his latest book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, which argues that we are currently living in the most ...

Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, starts with a modest claim: “This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history.” “Believe it or ...

How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkersBy Alex Blasdel. Read by Christopher Ragland ...