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June 30, 2024

Sunday Science: Do We Need Language To Think?

Carl Zimmer New York Times

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning.

November 26, 2022

Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences

Walden Bello Foreign Policy in Focus

The intellectual godfathers of the “alt right” and their descendants are on a fool’s errand: to rationalize irrational hatreds.

July 3, 2022

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan

Steven Pinker and Harvey Silverglate Quillette

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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April 25, 2018

Can Science Justify Itself?

Ada Palmer Harvard Magazine

At a time when the attack on reason as such is the stuff of everyday news, Steven Pinker reminds us of an important aspect of our society's intellectual legacy.

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