In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

If illiberalism is the problem, what is the cure? By David French In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver ...

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 ...

Pinker argues that this layered awareness—knowing that others know that you know—binds societies together and, at times, tears them apart. From cooperation and civility to hypocrisy and moral outrage, ...