User-Created Clip November 27, 2014 2014-11-22T21:15:42-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/65a/20141122211614002_hd.jpgHarvard linguist & psychologist, Steven ...

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 ...

LOL and CU L8R – is technology corrupting the English language? With our daily lives bombarded by texts and tweets are etiquette, writing, and grammar going out of style? Noted linguist and ...

When it comes to writing about writing, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker is a triple threat: a researcher of the mind, an expert on the workings of language, and a wordsmith in his own right. In The ...

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.

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 ...

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

For all the crises and doomers and existential threats that may darken graduation day, it’s good to recall that past graduation days were darkened by crises that were as bad or worse. Still, those ...