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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching, and books, he has been named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People and one of Foreign Policy‘s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. His books include The Stuff of Thought, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blank Slate, and The Sense of Style.


The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is

Steven Pinker on the Virulence of Contemporary Pessimism
March 1, 2018  By Steven Pinker
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