I’m coming to Sydney on 7 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me, Steven Pinker, for an evening of intellectually stimulating conversation. | Steven Pinker
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I’m coming to Sydney on 7 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me, Steven Pinker, for an evening of intellectually stimulating conversation. | Steven Pinker
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I’m coming to Melbourne on 6 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me. | Steven Pinker
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I’m coming to Melbourne on 6 Feb 2026 to talk about reason, progress, and how ideas shape our future. Join me. | Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker: Can Harvard be saved?
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Steven Pinker: Can Harvard be saved?
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Discussing progress with Bill Maher on Real Time last night. @billmaher. Me: Progress is not a magical force that makes everything better all the time. That would be a miracle. And things sometimes do get worse. War deaths have gotten worse. It's taken us back to the level of the 1990s. The world's gotten a bit less democratic than it was. We're still better off than we were during the 20th century--at any time in the 20th century. And for other measures like life expectancy at birth, level of e
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Discussing progress with Bill Maher on Real Time last night. @billmaher. Me: Progress is not a magical force that makes everything better all the time. That would be a miracle. And things sometimes do get worse. War deaths have gotten worse. It's taken us back to the level of the 1990s. The world's gotten a bit less democratic than it was. We're still better off than we were during the 20th century--at any time in the 20th century. And for other measures like life expectancy at birth, level of e
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Human nature and the blank slate
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Human nature and the blank slate
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I spoke with Pooja Arora about why people are drawn to pessimism despite historic progress, and how cognitive biases and media dynamics distort our perception of modern life. | Steven Pinker
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I spoke with Pooja Arora about why people are drawn to pessimism despite historic progress, and how cognitive biases and media dynamics distort our perception of modern life. | Steven Pinker
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The long reach of reason
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The long reach of reason
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There isn't some mysterious force that's just guaranteed to make things better and better. That's not the way the universe works. In fact, quite the contrary, the universe kind of tries to grind us down. And if we've made progress, it's because of human efforts. (From the @HopeExistential podcast. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=QTBzuKholjo) | Steven Pinker
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Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers
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It’s important to appreciate the advances humanity has made, says Steven Pinker, and to protect the work that has made #progress possible. Watch Harvard #psychologist Steven Pinker’s session at #Davos, ‘The Arc of Progress in the 21st Century’, here: https://ow.ly/Mw2r50UTV7l | World Economic Forum
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I spoke with Prof. Arora (@LaulPatricia) about how the postwar norm against aggressive war drove decades of declining violence—and how today’s “might makes right” politics, embraced by leaders like Putin and Trump, now threaten that hard-won peace. Me: The norm that countries do not go to war except in self-defense and with authorization of the UN Security Council has been rejected both by Putin and Trump. Of course, there were often violations of that in the past, including the United States in
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AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
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Steven Pinker ｜Avicii – Hey Brother #stevenpinker
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Bill Gates & Steven Pinker discuss Enlightenment Now
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Steven Pinker on Human Nature | Big Think
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Does History Progress?
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Steven Pinker: Common Knowledge & Social Coordination | R-Academy #12
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