Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking. Now he wants us to join him. For this series Professor Pinker has created a critical thinking toolkit which he hopes will help all of us make better decisions about - well, everything. Steven will be joined by some big thinkers, and...

Has the Decline of Violence Reversed since The Better Angels of Our Nature was Written? 2015 Update 2015 Graphs 2014 Update Questions about Definitions How do you define “violence”? I don’t. I use the term in its standard sense, more or less the one you’d find in a dictionary (such as The American...

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...

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...