Mr Pinker, a professor at Harvard, has a lot to get off his chest. His previous book, “Enlightenment Now”, a paean to reason’s role in history, had a mixed reception in 2018.

Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology and a Harvard College professor. (Courtesy Rose Lincoln/Harvard) This article is more than 7 years old.

In Pinker’s hands, we do not feel ordered around capriciously, but truly guided by an inspiring teacher. He was interviewed by Gareth Cook, the editor of Scientific American 's Mind Matters.

L ast month, Steven Pinker published Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. The book represents yet another milestone in the author’s slide from world-renowned linguist ...

With all its wars, murder and genocide, history might suggest that the taste for blood is human nature. Not so, argues Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker. He talks to WSJ's Gary Rosen about the decline ...

Despite Pinker’s bombastic declaration in his preface that he “knew of no book that tried to explain them all,” a great deal of “Rationality” repackages (with due credit) the pioneering ...

Pinker was born in 1954 in Montreal, and raised in that bilingual city’s English-speaking Jewish community (his sister, Susan, is also a psychologist, of the clinical rather than research variety).

Steven Pinker — The show talks with evolutionary psychologist and author Steven Pinker about his new book, "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature." Pinker is a professor ...

In reviewing Steven Pinker’s “Rationality” (Bookshelf, Oct. 2), Andrew Stark is surely right to propose that not only does humility improve rationality, but that rationality fosters humility.