Author: Steven Pinker

What is more interesting than the human mind, Steven Pinker once asked. But this is also a question that has been asked in many different ways, with a variety of theories to describe it. There are those who believe that the mind is literally a “tabula rasa,” a blank state;…

Dueling and slavery, according to John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University, have disappeared. Steven Pinker, a psychologist at Harvard University, isn’t making the same argument. Rather, he argues that based on previous historical epochs, human beings have actually become more and more peaceful and civil; even if…