![]() WALKER: For fun, I'd like to start with writing. ![]() Steve, welcome to The Jolly Swagman Podcast. The last book of his I read is Rationality, which is going to be the focus of our conversation today. But the first book of Steve's I read was The Sense of Style, a manual for good writing which exemplifies its own advice, and in which I learned that new information should come at the end of the sentence and that one of Steve's favourite Yiddish words is bubbe-meise. He's authored many famous books, including The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now. Steve is a cognitive psychologist and one of the great public intellectuals of our age. JOE WALKER: I am here at Harvard today with Steven Pinker. ![]() He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, an elected to the National Academy of Sciences and one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. How rational are we? How can a species smart enough to set foot on the moon also be prone to conspiracy theories that the moon landing was fake? Joe speaks with Steven Pinker to discuss rationality - and its opposite. ![]()
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