Steven Pinker: “I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully” | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 1

By cataloging the steady march of human progress, Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker has become a very public intellectual. But the self-declared “polite Canadian” has managed to enrage people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Steve Levitt tries to understand why.

This episode was originally published August 21, 2020.
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