Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism | Steven Pinker | The Guardian

During the podcast, Pinker expressed agreement with claims made by Charles Murray, the author of The Bell Curve, a prominent figure in the "human biodiversity" movement that seeks to promote race-based theories of intelligence, and like Pinker a one-time participant in a human biodiversity email list convened by Steve Sailer...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast 

 

Rationality (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Spring is here, and state/church violations are bursting out all over. We report on violations in Ohio, Colorado, West Virginia and Indiana, and ask Idaho's governor not to sign a draconian anti-abortion bill. After hearing Audra McDonald sing the evocative "Spring is Here" by freethinking composer Richard Rodgers, we listen to Harvard Professor Steven Pinker at FFRF's convention in Boston describing his new book, Rationality: What It Is — Why It Is Scarce — Why It Matters.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/40624-freethought-radio-march-17-2022

Steven Pinker: Rationality and why it matters - Freethought Today

"…Rationality should be the fourth "R" taught in school, along with reading, writing and 'rithmetic. 

We should have a greater awareness of the fallacies that the unaided human mind is prone to. We should promote the norm, that beliefs should be based on evidence and that changing your mind when the evidence changes should be taken as a sign of strength, not of flip-flopping or weakness…"

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/articles/vol-39-no-02-march-2022/steven-pinker-rationality-and-why-it-matters/

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

Was 2017 really the "worst year ever," as some would have us believe? In his analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, psychologist Steven Pinker finds that we're doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago. But progress isn't inevitable, and it doesn't mean everything gets better for everyone all the time, Pinker says. Instead, progress is problem-solving, and we should look at things like climate change and nuclear war as problems to be solved, not apocalypses in waiting. "We will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one," he says. "But there's no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing."...
https://youtu.be/yCm9Ng0bbEQ

Enlightenment Explained by Steven Pinker

https://youtu.be/8sMtw9mKHX0

Steven Pinker: Knowledge has enhanced human flourishing | Freethought Today

At the FFRF convention in Madison, Wis., FFRF Honorary President Steven Pinker discusses the advances humanity has made by use of reason and science, the main theme of his new book, Enlightenment Now.

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/vol-34-no-02-march-2018/steven-pinker-knowledge-has-enhanced-human-flourishing

It may have seemed like the world fell apart in 2016. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it didn’t. - Vox

“The world continues to improve in just about every way.”...
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/12/22/14042506/steven-pinker-optimistic-future-2016

Best of Steven Pinker Arguments And Comebacks Part 2