The world in 2025 must be a maddening place for the liberal centre. These vanguards of common sense are forced to play witness, powerless as norms are torn down all around them. D ...
In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses ...
The oddities of social life—and our efforts to cooperate and coordinate—may turn on our assumptions about the knowledge we share.
In "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows," Pinker maps out how human beings can’t help but try to suss one another out.
Steven Pinker’s new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows makes a compelling case for common knowledge. Shame the politics muddies the waters ...
Steven Pinker, the eminent linguist and psychologist, muses on what happens when knowledge is, or isn’t, shared.
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows — Steven Pinker on what drives mobs, manias and crypto booms
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What was it about the televised presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in June 2024 that made ...
Racial quotas now standard for Canadian academic hiring, grant funding You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. First Reading is a Canadian politics ...
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins revealed to comedian and pundit Bill Maher that she had friends seriously asking her if President Donald Trump “actually died” when “Trump is Dead”-mania swept social media.
Gender disparities in math proficiency emerge only after children start school, according to a June study coauthored by Harvard Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71 and published in the ...
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