Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. His new book "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" will be released in February 2018.
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And we're live first of all Steve, thank you very much for doing this. I really appreciate it. Oh, thank you for having me
I've been a big fan of your work for a long time and you you bring up some really fascinating subjects and we were talking right before the podcast about
Social media and how weird it is that you got lumped in with the alt-right for a comment
saying something along the lines of
That you find what was the exact quote something along highly intelligent people seem to which is not saying they're good people
No, that's right. And I think a lot of people who are
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