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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Academics, consultants, policy wonks, and other symbolic analysts
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
This is a zeugma: the intentional juxtaposition of different senses of a single word.
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
the psychologist Steven Pinker has argued that good news tends to unfold slowly, while bad news is often more sudden.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Progress is good. As Steven Pinker has argued, most things are getting better over time. We are richer, healthier, safer, and better-educated than our ancestors. Although redistribution and social changes can make things better or worse around the edges, most of our current fortunate position comes from simple economic growth.
Scott Alexander • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
CHAPTER 11 PEACE
Steven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.