Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and...#Steven Pinker
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that...#Steven Pinker
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for...#Steven Pinker
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political...#Steven Pinker
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that...#Steven Pinker
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to...#Steven Pinker
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.#Intellectuals
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.#Steven Pinker
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts...#Steven Pinker
