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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Are we headed to hell in a handcart? If paralysis in government and violence at home aren't carrying us in that direction, then climate change and terrorism abroad might. Or so it seems. To the rescue ...

At the beginning of his book, The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker demonstrates the amazing power of language with an example. He writes, The [language] ability comes so naturally that we are apt to ...

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 ...

Faculty and students have the right to express their opinions. They don’t have the right to give the impression their opinions are endorsed by Harvard University. The government has a legitimate ...