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Jul 15, 2020 · He described his critics as “speech police” who “have trawled through my writings to find offensive lines and adjectives.” The letter against him focuses mainly on his activity on Twitter, where he...
Sep 28, 2021 · “Sometimes to my own retroactive surprise, I seem to have a taste for controversy,” he recently told Steven Levitt, the economist and author of Freakonomics.
Jul 20, 2020 · Steven Pinker will be fine, but a letter from his critics signals less powerful scholars that certain opinions, publicly stated, could result in professional sanction. By Conor Friedersdorf...
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Sep 6, 2021 · They’ve also generated no small amount of disagreement, with Pinker’s critics arguing, to cite two common examples, that his view of the world is overly sympathetic to the excesses of...
Dec 25, 2023 · The meeting, first reported by the New York Times, included Jeff Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School, and Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, among two...
Oct 27, 2022 · How has the public intellectual and Harvard professor become a controversial figure in academia? The article explores his views on free speech, diversity, and the Great American Awokening.
Jul 15, 2020 · More than 550 academics signed a letter seeking to remove Pinker from the Linguistic Society of America, citing his tweets and book as evidence of downplaying racial injustices. Pinker defends his views and free speech, while critics call him a speech police and a denier of systemic racism.
