The Latest Breaking News from Steven Pinker

Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

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.

The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke."

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