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 ...

Steven Pinker joins Mona Charen to discuss why the world is improving in ways most people don’t recognize—and why so many ...

United Nations-- The headlines from around the world are gloomy; millions are starving, children dying in war zones, pandemics, trade wars and terror attacks. But ...

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 ...

He may have been named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, but Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker says he’s still a little surprised when people stop him on 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk may be cheap, and actions may speak louder than words. Nevertheless, rhetoric matters. It arouses passions, noble and base.

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 ...

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” ...