L ast month, Steven Pinker published Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. The book represents yet another milestone in the author’s slide from world-renowned linguist ...

In reviewing Steven Pinker’s “Rationality” (Bookshelf, Oct. 2), Andrew Stark is surely right to propose that not only does humility improve rationality, but that rationality fosters humility.

T oday's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning ...

Steven Pinker is every bit the populist. All but three of his nine books are aimed at the general public (“The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” is available in 21 ...

In the week that I interview the cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker in his office at Harvard, police release the agonizing recordings of emergency calls made during the ...

Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” Carlin’s quip is one of many in Steven Pinker’s “Rationality,” an engaging analysis of the highest of our faculties and ...