Steven Pinker: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Honestly with Bari Weiss
The Free Press
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:37.4 | most important public intellectuals in America. Stephen Pinker is a |
| 0:42.4 | cognitive psychologist whose work deals into the complexities of |
| 0:46.1 | cognition, language, and social behavior. His research offers a window into the |
| 0:51.0 | fundamental workings of the human mind, and his data-driven optimism has |
| 0:55.1 | set him apart from the chorus of doomer voices we hear so much from in our public discourse. |
| 1:00.6 | He's the author of nine books, including Enlightenment Now, the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, and, |
| 1:08.0 | and most recently, rationality, what it is, why it seems scarce, and why it matters. I sat down with him for a wide-ranging |
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