Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. This episode is a recording of a live

conversation that I had at the Comedy Cellar in New York City with the great Stephen Pinker.

Stephen is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He's

the Johnstone family professor of psychology at Harvard University, and he previously taught at

MIT and Stanford. Today we're discussing his new book, when everyone knows that everyone knows.

This book answers questions like, why did Biden's bad debate performance lead to his ouster when

most Americans already believed he was too old, and also questions like,

why do dictators hate comedy? Along the way, we also talk about U.S. foreign policy in general,

where Stephen and I have some disagreements. We talk about how to apologize to people and when to

apologize to people, and we even talk about read receipts. So without further ado, Stephen Pinker.

Now, are all the traitors present? Let's get started, shall we? From rags to riches. I'm so sick of this.

Working like a dog and being treated worse.

Yorkshire to New York. Poor climbers, you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this

an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

Okay, hello. How are we doing tonight?

All right. So it's a very special occasion because there is a new Steven Pinker book.

And I don't know about you, but every time there is a new Pinker book, I drop everything.

I do a little dance in privacy that I'm going to spare you from right now.

You definitely don't want to see it. But it makes me very happy that I'm able to share this moment

with you and the book will be out next week. And we're going to talk about it a bit today and we're

going to touch some other topics. So thank you so much for coming. First of all, Stephen, you've written about so many different topics. On any given day,

you could be writing about irregular verbs or the decline of violence around the world or the

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