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   Will Steven Pinker be fined?

   • 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.

   Steven Pinker Will Be Just Fine - The Atlantic

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   Who is Steven Pinker?

   • Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times Steven Pinker occupies a role that is rare in American life: the celebrity intellectual. The Harvard professor pops up on outlets from PBS to the Joe Rogan podcast, translating dense subjects into accessible ideas with enthusiasm. Bill Gates called his most recent book “my new favorite book of all time.”

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   What does Steven Pinker say about progress?

   • By slyly tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim. Progress in the quality of life, for humans and nonhumans alike, is something that anyone with a heart should celebrate.

   Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why

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   What do Pinker's critics see as a feeding into sexism?

   • What Pinker sees as a commitment to free speech and the scientific method, his critics see as a feeding into racism, sexism, and the worst parts of the status quo. In talking to Pinker over the course of several interviews, we wanted to reconcile this apparent contradiction.

   Steven Pinker and the Fight Over Academia’s Future

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   Could professor Pinker weather the campaign against him?

   • Reached at his home on Cape Cod, Professor Pinker, 65, noted that as a tenured faculty member and established author, he could weather the campaign against him. But he said it could chill junior faculty who hold views counter to prevailing intellectual currents.

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   What does Steven Pinker say about enlightenment?

   • Credit: Bhaawest via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, published earlier this year, Steven Pinker argues that the human race has never had it so good as a result of values he attributes to the European Enlightenment of the 18th century.

   Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why

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2. www.nytimes.com › 2020/07/15 › usHow Steven Pinker Became a Target Over His Tweets - The New ...

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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,...

3. www.opendemocracy.net › en › transformationSteven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs ...

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   The author challenges Pinker's optimistic view of progress and argues that humanity is facing ecological overshoot and other challenges. He uses graphs from scientific warnings to support his case and criticizes Pinker's simplistic and elitist arguments.

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5. www.theatlantic.com › ideas › archiveSteven Pinker Will Be Just Fine - The Atlantic

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   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.

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6. www.boston.com › 15 › harvard-steven-pinker-tweetsHow a famous Harvard professor became a target over his tweets

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   Jul 15, 2020 · Steven Pinker occupies a role that is rare in American life: the celebrity intellectual. The Harvard professor pops up on outlets from PBS to the Joe Rogan podcast, translating dense subjects...

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8. reason.com › podcast › 2024/03/27Steven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard - Reason.com

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   Mar 27, 2024 · Steven Pinker: What Went Wrong at Harvard. The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke." Nick...

9. www.nytimes.com › steven-pinker-interviewSteven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong

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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...