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Just over a year ago, the Harvard professor and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, doubling down on his <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302858 ...

Readers react to Steven Pinker’s essay on the Trump administration’s conflict with the university and its repercussions. To the Editor: Re “Is America Really Better Off if Harvard Gets Crushed?,” by ...

Steven Pinker on human development, economics, academic freedom Dr. Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, discusses driving social, political, and economic progress, promoting academic freedom, and ...

In Better Angels, Pinker traced moral progress to expanding circles of empathy and to the growing capacity for self-reflection and reason—forms of recursive mentalizing that let us imagine others’ ...