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Bookmark Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: the missing link between neoliberalism and the…
The academics have distanced themselves from the fringes of the right, but their ideas have gained currency there. Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson: a bridge between fringe and mainstream conservatism? Image:…

November 5 2018, 12:50am | Comments
Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
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Delusions of Peace

October 6 2011, 2:37am | Comments
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A History Of Violence

September 29 2011, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark Steven Pinker on the History and decline (and myth of) Violence
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human…

September 20 2011, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Humanities in the Digital Age
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of…

March 6 2011, 12:02pm | Comments
Bookmark Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their…
What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments
Bookmark The Perils Of Progress
Pinker, true to type, opens his piece: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics. The printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their…

June 29 2010, 11:48am | Comments
Bookmark My bright idea: Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics, his chosen field. In his new book, Through the Language Glass (Heinemann), he fearlessly contradicts the fashionable…

June 13 2010, 5:33am | Comments
Hello Grandad On plasticine worlds, orbiting pinker stars, the fingers of your left hand have all grown nostrils

May 15 2010, 4:21am | Comments

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