On Sept. 29, Harvard Professor Steven Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book on common ...

Pinker's new book reveals how recursive mentalizing—thinking about thinking—may be the hidden engine of human life, from ...

Charles Darwin thought that singing pre-dated speech and was all about sex and power. Other evolutionary musicologists have ...

The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our ...

Before boarding a flight to South Africa in 2013, Justine Sacco sent a sardonic joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding—I’m white!” By the time her ...

In “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,” the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses Let us begin with a few simple ...

In a sense, human beings are constantly playing games with one another. Whether finding one’s place in the pecking order, testing another’s mettle, angling for scarce resources or more desirable ...

Through the tale of a new computer, a Super Bowl ad, and the rise of Apple, the Harvard psychologist explores the impact of common knowledge. Those of us who have lived through the steady ...

Humanists Australia has withdrawn its partnership and support for the tour in February by Professor Pinker, a US-Canadian cognitive psychologist and prominent advocate of humanist views, after he ...

The everyday meaning of “common knowledge” is knowledge held in common, often as an open secret. For example, it is common knowledge that publishers like books that seek, via quirky examples, to ...

Let us begin with a few simple propositions: (1) I know that the Harvard cognitive scientist and noted anti-wokeness crusader Steven Pinker has written a wan and blinkered book about the nature of ...