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 ...

LOL and CU L8R – is technology corrupting the English language? With our daily lives bombarded by texts and tweets are etiquette, writing, and grammar going out of style? Noted linguist and ...

When it comes to writing about writing, 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 ...

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.

Steven Pinker irks many of his fellow intellectuals. I’ve knocked him myself for his views on postmodernism and the origins of war, and he’s knocked me back. I am nonetheless a longtime admirer of the ...

The government has a legitimate interest in protecting students from harassment and discrimination, but not in micromanaging the internal operation of the University, and certainly not in ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Steven Pinker is a Professor for Psychology in the Harvard University with 14 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech as a Professor for the ...