The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of common sense are forced to play ...

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In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Readers react to Steven ...

We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are ...

Miguel Servato (Michael Seravtus) was a remarkably accomplished scholar who lived in Europe in the sixteenth century (1509-1553). The scope of his scientific contributions is remarkable: Mr. Servato ...

Steven Pinker, author of the new book "Enlightenment Now," wants us to look past the headlines and acknowledge global progress over the last few decades. Here's why that's not as simple as he wants it ...

The BBVA Foundation award in the category of Humanities and Social Sciences recognized two thinkers who have placed the role of rationality, scientific knowledge, humanism and the moral status of ...

Professor Steven Pinker, hailed as a free-thinking intellectual, slammed efforts by Chris Rufo and others to stop woke indoctrination in schools. Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard, ...