The surprising decline in violence
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The surprising decline in violence
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What our language habits reveal
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What our language habits reveal
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Human nature and the blank slate
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Human nature and the blank slate
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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World | Steven Pinker | TED
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How Common Knowledge Shapes the World | Steven Pinker | TED
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“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” | Steven Pinker
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“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” | Steven Pinker
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker: The case for letting go of identity politics
Steven Pinker: The case for letting go of identity politics
Oct 11, 2021
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They got the same DNA. Genes are the same. Same mother, same father, same older siblings, same younger siblings, same number of books in the house, same number of TVs in the house, same teachers, same everything. So they should be absolutely indistinguishable. They should be, you know, clones. Well, if you know a pair of identical twins, you know they’re not indistinguishable. They have separate personalities. I know this intimately, having two identical twin uncles, Barry and Mark, who are more
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In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for the economy. I don't see good things on the horizon. Steve [Stephen Moore] will just obviously argue with me about that. But Trump has what I call contagious confidence. He is so bullish and so confident. Well, he must kn
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Harvard's Steven Pinker: how we speak reveals what we think
Apr 2, 2015
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Discussing common knowledge with Bill Maher. Common knowledge is the topic of my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/when-everyone-knows-everyone-knows-common-knowledge-and-mysteries-money-power-and Maher: What's the phrase of the book when everyone knows that everyone knows? Okay, so explain what that means. Me: Yes, so when everyone knows that everyone knows. When I kn
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The Cognitive Revolution
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Gender Bender - Washington, DC 48HFP winner - 2015
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Yuval Noah Harari & Steven Pinker in conversation
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A History of Violence: Steven Pinker at TEDxNewEngland
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Life with Gender Dysphoria | Sunny Miller | TEDxEBS
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Jordan Peterson Explains the Gender Paradox - Joe Rogan
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Steven Pinker on Human Nature | Big Think
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The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker
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Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate
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Stylish Academic Writing |Steven Pinker | Office of Faculty Development & Diversity
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The revolutionary truth about kids and gender identity | Angela Kade Goepferd | TEDxMinneapolis
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Steven Pinker - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews
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Steven Pinker on Good Writing, with Ian McEwan
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Prof. Steven Pinker - The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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Steven Pinker: Language and Consciousness, Part 1 Complete: Thinking Allowed w/ J. Mishlove
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Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature
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Noam Chomsky on Steven Pinker
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