We asked Harvard professor and the author of "Enlightenment Now" Steven Pinker about his thoughts on the meaning and significance behind two of president's favorite phrases. Steven Pinker ...

This year, Harvard professor Steven Pinker topped Bill Gates' top book list with "Enlightenment Now," which challenges people's questions about world progress. According to Pinker, the world is ...

Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Among many other subjects, he researches and explores cognition, language and the history of human violence.

Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking. Now he wants us to join him. For this series Professor Pinker has created a critical thinking toolkit which he hopes will help ...

In the 21st century, when globalisation has forced the globe to quickly adjust to changes, education is the most urgently needed item. If it is not, disaster will follow and destroy future generations ...

AI, natural capital, the Trump effect, this year’s G20, and the self-destruction of modern civilisation were all discussed at ...

Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard and author, most recently, of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Democratic governance cannot work if no ...

Not everything is black and white—in fact, from some perspectives, we are living in the best era yet, explains psychologist ...

Errors and biases should be exposed by vigorous criticism from members of the Harvard community, not stipulated by University policy. The principle of academic freedom gives all members of our ...

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