In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon ...

Observers who take issue with current orthodoxies (race-based quotas, compulsory support for racial diversity policies) are often denounced or sidetracked in the country’s universities and other ...

The public intellectual is at pains to stress the world isn’t backsliding into the dark ages By Finn McRedmond The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of ...

Distinguished scholar tells MPs that discriminatory policies at universities and government institutions are harming science and the nation You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

In recent years, Steven Pinker, the celebrated Harvard professor of psychology, has become almost as well known for the controversies he triggers as for the bestselling books he writes. Widely ...

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

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

President Donald Trump wants Harvard University to cough up at least $500 million. Longtime Harvard professor Steven Pinker says it’s extortion. And Harvard should do it anyway. Globe columnist Carine ...

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 Dennis Duncan teaches ...

Think of a dreadful secret about yourself, something shameful that nobody knows. Now imagine someone close to you stumbles across the horrible truth and you don’t know they know; they’ve kept it to ...

Racial quotas now standard for Canadian academic hiring, grant funding You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. First Reading is a Canadian politics ...