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Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals

Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious work is to reassure liberals that they are on “the right side of history”.
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Interview: 20 Questions with Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and bestselling popular science author 

Interview: 20 Questions with Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and bestselling popular science author  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? Steven Pinker: "It’s dangerously anti-human to claim that everything is political."
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Steven Pinker is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) and, most recently, Enlightenment Now.
 
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