"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...

Stereoscopy Magazine Member Highlight, October 2025 The Times: Steven Pinker: I’m pinned between cancel culture and Trump, October 2025 The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter: Top 20 Steven Pinker Quotes, March 2025 “2 1/2 D: The Stereoscopic Photography of Steven Pinker.” Review in Whitehot...

Common Knowledge What’s the difference between two people knowing something, and each one knowing that the other one knows that each one knows that the other one knows it, ad infinitum? A lot, say logicians and game theorists: common knowledge is qualitatively different from shared knowledge. It is...

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...

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...

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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...

"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...

REVIEWS Samuel Cohn, Global Social Trends, Aug. 2019 Tom Bartlett, The Chronicle Review, Mar. 2019 Simon Heffer, The Telegraph, Jan. 2019 52 Insights, Jan. 2019 Geoffrey Galt Harpham , Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, Fall 2018 Dennis Junk, Dennis Junk's Author Site, Apr. 2018 Joshua Kim...