Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the ...

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 ...

Every day, we read news articles about war, shootings, pollution, inequality, and the threat of nuclear weapons. These stories may suggest that the world is in its worst state ever, especially for ...

‘Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe,” the comedian George Carlin once observed, “and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have ...

Steven Pinker’s new book is a meticulous defense of science and objective analysis, a rebuttal to the tribalism, knee-jerk partisanship and disinformation that taints our politics. “Enlightenment Now” ...

In the controversial yet bestselling books The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now, Harvard linguist Steven Pinker made the case that humanity has been getting richer and less violent ...

Bill Gates' favorite author recently published a new book — and Gates has already called it his "favorite book of all time," on his blog. Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard and the ...

"There are many battles of history that were lost because of botched communication," says Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. In today's workplace where email and Slack ...

When The Chronicle's book editor sent me Steven Pinker's new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," to review, he wrote on a note, "I hope he's right!" referring to the subtitle about the decline of ...

He says the humanities should adopt a more scientific approach In the week that I interview the cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker in his office at Harvard, police release the ...