Every day, we read news articles about war, shootings, pollution, inequality, and the threat of nuclear weapons. These stories may suggest that the world is in its worst state ever, especially for ...

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

‘Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe,” the comedian George Carlin once observed, “and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have ...

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.

Psychologist Steven Pinker has a PhD from Harvard and is a professor there. He's also taught at Stanford and MIT. He's published 10 books and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He's been ...

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 ...

"There are many battles of history that were lost because of botched communication," says Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. In today's workplace where email and Slack ...

Bill Gates' favorite author recently published a new book — and Gates has already called it his "favorite book of all time," on his blog. Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard and the ...

Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, starts with a modest claim: “This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history.” “Believe it or ...

He says the humanities should adopt a more scientific approach In the week that I interview the cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker in his office at Harvard, police release the ...