Steven PinkerThinkers

Better angels of our nature is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

Evolutionary psychology is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Human nature is not being blank slates. We have propensities to both violence and 'better angels of our nature', which manifest based on material circumstances, consolidation of the power of the state, cosmopolitanism, and the empowerment of women.

Human nature is not all violent. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Language instinct is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Nature - culture is a false alternative because you couldn't have nurture without innate biological faculties, as well as the other way around.

Photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Political correctness is a once reasonable movement which, once it reached its major goals, went haywire in search of ever smaller grievances.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.