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 ...
Still, for many, scenes from the past year, including the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the bombing of a Yemeni school bus, and the disconcertingly threatening Twitter exchange between the ...
On May 24, 2023, Steven Pinker and Richard Thaler, two of the world’s leading behavioral scientists, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion on rationality, AI, overcoming collective action problems, and ...