Publications | Steven Pinker

2023

Pinker, S. (2023). Reason To Believe: How and why irrationality takes hold, and what do to about it. Persuasion .

Pinker, S. (2023).

Pinker on the power of irrationality: Why it can be rational to be irrational

. IAI News.

2022

Pinker, S. (2022). Is Belief in ESP Irrational? Steven Pinker vs. Brian D. Josephson. Skeptic.

Pinker, S., & Silverglate, H. (2022). Science and Civil Liberties: The lost ACLU lecture of Carl Sagan. Quillette.

Pinker, S., & Aaronson, S. (2022). Steven Pinker and Scott Aaronson debate AI scaling!. Collate.

Pinker, S. (2022). Emily Oster. Time.

Pinker, S. (2022).

Is Russia’s war with Ukraine the end of the Long Peace?

. Boston Globe.

Pinker, S. (2022). Three ways to be more rational this year. BBC News.

2021

DeScioli, P., & Pinker, S. (2021). Piled Modifiers, Buried Verbs, and Other Turgid Prose in the American Political Science Review. PS: Political Science & Politics.

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Rees, M., & Pinker, S. (2021).

Martin Rees and Steven Pinker: Wagering on catastrophe

. New Statesman.

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