The recent release of thousands of emails that late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exchanged with associates has renewed interest in the disgraced financier’s connection to star Harvard University ...

Harvard Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker condemned the rise of cancel culture in higher education at an Institute of Politics forum on Wednesday, telling his audience that academics must avoid ...

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said there was a “grain of truth” to President Donald Trump’s argument that Harvard University was a “liberal mess.” “President Trump has described Harvard ...

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker said there was a "grain of truth" to President Donald Trump's argument that Harvard University was a "liberal mess." "President Trump has described Harvard ...

Charles Murray doesn’t need my help debating Steven Pinker, but as the author of the principal book on terminal lucidity, I offer a few observations (Letters, Nov. 1). Contrary to Mr. Pinker, grieving ...

Steven Pinker’s characterization of my op-ed “Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?” makes little contact with its text (Letters, Oct. 30). My piece outlined the evidence for terminal lucidity among ...

Charles Murray interprets anecdotes of “terminal lucidity,” unresponsive neurological patients coming to life for a final goodbye, as evidence for an immaterial soul (“Can Science Reckon With the ...

On Sept. 29, Harvard Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker sat down at the First Parish Church to discuss his most recent book, “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…: Common Knowledge and the ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans perform; and even more so about what can and can’t be said about ...

Let us begin with a few simple propositions: (1) I know that the Harvard cognitive scientist and noted anti-wokeness crusader Steven Pinker has written a wan and blinkered book about the nature of ...