Steven Pinker hasn't explained everything in his compelling new book... But he explains a great deal. ... One must read "How the Mind Works" to feel the full force of the case it makes. As lengthy as it is, it will produce a book in the reader's head that is even longer. For it alters completely the...

"What the F***", adaptation, The New Republic. "How do we Come up with Words?", adaptation, The Los Angeles Times "Words Don't Mean What they Mean," adaptation, Time "How the Mind Negotiates Reality," New York Academy of Sciences Update. "Can't Find the Words? Make 'em Up," adaptation and video, The...

Print Articles & Interviews English Why Do People Love to Hate Steven Pinker? - The Chronicle Review, Mar. 2019 Steven Pinker: Why our world is getting better - 52 Insights , Jan. 4, 2019 Journalists think reporting good news is propaganda or PR, says Harvard professor Steven Pinker - The Times of...

"Charming and erudite….While The Sense of Style is very much a practical guide to clear and compelling writing, it’s also far more. Pinker dives deep into the neuroscience of language to explain why some writing is clear, some murky and some sublime. …The wit and insight and clarity he brings to...

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"A subtle piece of natural philosophy to rival that of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment...He writes like an angel too." —The Economist, Dec. 10, 2011 "The Better Angels of Our Nature is a supremely important book. To have command of so much research, spread across so many different fields, is...