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Review excerpts for How the Mind Works

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...

Articles for The Stuff of Thought

"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...

Enlightenment Now: Interviews and articles

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...

Sense of Style Review Extracts

"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...

Reviews of The Better Angels of Our Nature

Violence Research Lab The New York Times, Oct. 2011 The Guardian, Sept. 2011 The Economist, Dec. 2011 American Scholar, Autumn 2011 Nature, Oct. 2011 The National Interest, Oct. 2011 The Sunday Times , Oct. 2011 Slate, Oct. 2011 The Daily Beast, Nov. 2011 The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2011 The...

Rationality - Interviews, Articles, and Adaptations

Interviews: Nautilus: Steven Pinker Has His Reasons New York Times Magazine: Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong The Times: Steven Pinker: 'A generation has to watch every word... It could cripple intellectual life' Smashing Interviews Magazine: Steven Pinker Interview: How...

Steven Pinker: Honestly, This is the Best Time to Be Alive

By Tony Allen-Mills The Sunday Times , Oct. 2011 As a precocious teenager growing up in Canada in the 1960s, Steven Pinker scoured his history books for a political ideology that would inspire his rebel soul. Scorning the bourgeois conventions of democracy, he settled on Mikhail Bakunin, the 19th...

Reviews for The Stuff of Thought

Science (gated) Slate Los Angeles Times New York Times New York Times Sunday Magazine Boston Globe New York Review of Books New York Sun American Conservative Christian Science Monitor The Oregonian Huffington Post 3 Quarks Daily Booklist Monsters and Critics Publishers Weekly Portland Mercury The...

Review Excerpts for The Language Instinct

Pinker writes clearly and engagingly about the most difficult matters. — American Airlines Way ... an excellent overview of what is known about the nature of language. ... Pinker has a fine knack for elucidating complex linguistic theory in such clean prose that it all seems transparent—a difficult...

Review Excerpts for Learnability and Cognition

"A monumental study that sets a new standard for work on learnability." —Ray Jackendoff "The author's arguments are never less than impressive, and sometimes irresistible, such is the force and panache with which they are deployed." —Paul Fletcher, Times Higher Education Supplement "Learnability and...