The recent release of thousands of emails that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exchanged with associates has renewed interest in the disgraced financier’s connection to star Harvard University ...

Harvard Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker condemned the rise of cancel culture in higher education at an Institute of Politics forum on Wednesday, telling his audience that academics must avoid ...

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said there was a "grain of truth" to President Donald Trump's argument that Harvard University was a "liberal mess." "President Trump has described Harvard ...

Steven Pinker illustrates the main idea of his latest popular science book with a joke from the Soviet Union. A political dissident stands in a Moscow train station, handing out leaflets to passersby.

Steven Pinker’s characterization of my op-ed “Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?” makes little contact with its text (Letters, Oct. 30). My piece outlined the evidence for terminal lucidity among ...

On Sept. 29, Harvard Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book, “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…: Common Knowledge and the ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

Jamie Q. Roberts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

How have the unsaid understandings between people moulded us - our society, history, culture? In his new book, the Harvard psychologist digs for answers. We laugh at the same jokes (usually for the ...

Through the tale of a new computer, a Super Bowl ad, and the rise of Apple, the Harvard psychologist explores the impact of common knowledge. Those of us who have lived through the steady ...

The public intellectual is at pains to stress the world isn’t backsliding into the dark ages By Finn McRedmond The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of ...

In a sense, human beings are constantly playing games with one another. Whether finding one’s place in the pecking order, testing another’s mettle, angling for scarce resources or more desirable ...