The Latest Breaking News from Steven Pinker

The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.

President’s attack on universities echoes efforts by Reagan and McCarthy – but experts say ‘we’re seeing much worse’

This book is full of pragmatic, hopeful solutions to environmental challenges. But is there something missing?

Our Perspective guests are two anthropologists who are challenging established critical thinking that violence, oppression and inequality are the natural order of things. They criticise the well-established work of professors like Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari and Jordan Peterson – claiming that their views on male dominance being…

Standard launches major inquiry into silencing of debate and growing threat from cancel culture

Aggressive timelines and initial missteps could throw a wrench in plans for the University of Austin.

His bold new exhibition draws on the work of Steven Pinker, Our World in Data, and Human Progress to document how much life has improved since the good old days.

I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse

Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.