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.
books 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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