Steven Pinker's new book is "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century." (jeffrey james pacres/Flickr) As broadcasters, we're taught to write in clear ...

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 Sense of Style, the Harvard ...

Today'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 that ...

Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific ... And so, while recognizing moral hazard, you also have to have some amount of common sense, compassion, and accommodation for bad luck ...

To his wife’s annoyance, Steven Pinker ... obviously rational in the sense of the world we’ve built. We did invent the vaccines, we did go to the Moon.” But Pinker’s outlook is ...

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker takes a different approach, one that is both more ambitious and more modest. In his new book, “The Sense of Style,” he draws on research, and particularly ...