Steven Pinker @sapinker
Cognitive scientist at Harvard. stevenpinker.com Boston, MA Joined January 2010-
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Why So Many People Feel Lost: A conversation between Nick Gillespie and Rebecca Goldstein on the search for meaning, the roots of modern discontent, and how people build purpose in a secular age. reason.com/podcast/2026/0… via @reason
Enlightenment values are a sounder vision for the West than tribe and faith, argues Francis Fukuyama (not surprisingly , I agree) open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…
I am a professional reader. As an appellate court judge, I read briefs and motions for a living. The most persuasive writers favor concrete words over abstract ones. Abstract writing is hard to read, harder to understand and hardest to remember. This is what happens inside a judge’s brain when you write abstractly. Thread. 🧵
Fame, Incels, and the Need to Matter: Rebecca Goldstein @platobooktour on the Behavioral Grooves podcast behavioralgrooves.com/episode/fame-i…
Delighted and honored to have officiated at the wedding of friend, former grad student, @cafh Executive Director Jason Nemirow, to Sarah Kious.
Harvard to America: You're welcome. Experimental Drug Doubles Median Survival in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer | Harvard Medical School hms.harvard.edu/news/experimen…)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. amazon.com/Enlightenment-…
"The greatest sentence every written," as Walter Isaacson put it, laying out the rational prerequisites for morality, law, and government (notwithstanding the vague, deistic "creator"). This is what made America great: a nation conceived not in race, religion, or ethnicity, but in the ideals of the Enlightenment. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Ever wonder what "the subjunctive" really is? A tense? A mood? Is it disappearing from modern English? And what's the deal with were in If I were a carpenter? All this and more in: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century: 9780143127796: Pinker, Steven: Books amazon.com/Sense-Style-Th…
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. amazon.com/When-Everyone-…
"How F.D.R.’s Most Famous Sentence ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself") Remade America." I analyze it in WEKTEK as an illustration of the power of common knowledge (more precisely, common expectation) in driving economic phenomena: bank runs, panics, hoarding, inflation, currency attacks, runs for the exits, and in the other direction, bubbles, meme stocks, irrational exuberance. People act in the expectation that others will expect others to expect them to act, ad infinitum, triggered by a publicly salient announcement or event (in Roosevelt's case, reversing the reverberant doubt). nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Bad arguments against self-driving taxis, exposed by @mboudry
My top five bad arguments from this anti-robotaxi piece in @TheAtlantic: 🚫 Sure, 1.2 million die in car crashes each year, but "90% are in low- and middle-income countries, which are not in Waymo's expansion plans." By that logic, why bother inventing vaccines? Most child
Which is the ethical priority: abolishing wealth, or abolishing poverty? Beggars or billionaires, asks Maarten Boudry @mboudry open.substack.com/pub/maartenbou…
‘Make American Great Again’ Was a Slogan Well Before Trump - The New York Times. (But make is not in the subjunctive mood in Reagan's Let's make America great again; it's a simple infinitive). nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Hasan Piker Is Following in Candace Owens's Footsteps by Matt Johnson @mattjj89 open.substack.com/pub/theunpopul…
I made similar arguments in the "Inequality" chapter of Enlightenment Now. "Strange" is an understatement when it comes to inequality in other measures like health: Would it be progress if tried to get the healthiest people do die sooner?
I find the political focus on inequality in this kind of work strange - as if one could make the poor better off just by making the rich worse off. Inequality can sometimes have negative consequences that we should care about, but it's ethically confused to care about equality
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Mattering - On the podcast talk show Philosophy Bites philosophybites.com/podcast/rebecc…
The harms of social media (and AI relationships) are often explained by conspiracy theories blamed the problems on companies' profit motives, nefarious algorithms, & other malevolence. But the tech is harm-neutral on the face of it, and few predicted the problems when the tech was introduced, before billions of people put it to their own uses. A more insightful analysis, I think, is the analogy with junk food: human nature sometimes makes us want things that in excess are bad for us (social competition, solitude, virtue signaling) and the tech inadvertently enables that excess. Two examples of this argument: Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It To Us Good And Hard? open.substack.com/pub/conspicuou…
Though battle deaths per capita and autocracy have crept upward in the past few years (while still well below 20th-century rates), most other indexes of nonviolence and well-being continue their progress and are at historical records. One example: decriminalization of homosexuality.
On the fiftieth anniversary of my own graduation from university, I was asked to write a commencement essay for the Harvard class of '26: Reflections on Half a Century of Progress | The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2026/6…
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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt
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Melissa Chen @MsMelChen
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Razib Khan 🧬 ✍�... @razibkhan
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan
585K Followers 1K Following Christian, founder @AHAFoundation, fellow @HooverInst, founder & contributing editor @RestoringWest and host of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Opinions my own.
Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff
81K Followers 1K Following CEO @thefireorg. #freespeech lawyer. Buy my new book, War On Words! Newsletter: https://t.co/kOQpTdvWWy
John McWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter
243K Followers 383 Following Columbia linguist, weekly at NYT, biweekly Glenn Show. Books of late: 9 NASTY WORDS, WOKE RACISM and PRONOUN TROUBLE. Some cabaret piano on the side.
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale
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tylercowen @tylercowen
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Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy
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