Even with all the bad news going on — the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, economic worries, whatever — Steven Pinker remains optimistic that the human species is making progress.

The lecture, which will discuss Pinker’s latest book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” will be held at 7 p.m. in the David J. Prior Convocation Center at The University of ...

AMES, Iowa – Will artificial intelligence render the human mind irrelevant? Acclaimed scientist and author Steven Pinker will answer that question when he presents the 2024 Goldtrap Lecture at Iowa ...

There’s nothing quite like listening to a group of intellectuals discuss the future that makes you feel like everything might be OK after all. The comforting optimism of academia is just one of the ...

The University of Massachusetts Linguistics Department hosted the first annual Donald C. and Margaret H. Freeman Lecture Friday, Feb. 15 at Herter Hall. UMass selected Steven Pinker, Professor of ...

Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, has been studying language for more than four decades, yet he’s not particularly interested in language per se.