In his latest book, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker looks at language and what it tells us about the way we think. Language, he argues, reflects the very nature of our brain structure.

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 ...

Debbie talks with Steven Pinker about the miraculous evolution of language, the most arresting question he has ever fielded, and his new book, Enlightenment Now—which breaks down why we actually have ...

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman’s guest is Bryan Garner, author, lexicographer, and subject of David Foster Wallace’s essay “Authority and American Usage.” Garner talks about his book, Modern ...

Bestselling Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Blank Slate) investigates what the words we use tell us about the way we think. Language, he concludes, reflects our brain structure, which itself ...

S teven Pinker is about as close as you can come to being an academic celebrity. The Harvard professor of psychology has written seven books for a general readership in addition to his scholarly work, ...

In an age when academic success is often predicated on ever-greater specialization in a scholar’s area of expertise — with the result that academic publishing is often quite narrow in the scope of its ...

Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Pinker is one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, and the the ...

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If illiberalism is the problem, what is the cure? By David French In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver ...