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Pinker — “Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his…”
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Pinker — “The scriptures present a God who delights in…”
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Pinker — “Why should the spread of ideas and people…”
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Pinker — “Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary…”
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Pinker — “The only people who should be allowed to…”
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Pinker — “The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul…”
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Pinker — “The theory that religion is a force for…”
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Pinker — “Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an…”
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Pinker — “In this way of thinking, the fact that…”
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Pinker — “The indispensability of reason does not imply that…”
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Pinker — “Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures…”
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Pinker — “An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that…”
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Pinker — “The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals…”
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Pinker — “Once again, the point of this discussion is…”
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Pinker — “Equality is not the empirical claim that all…”
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Pinker — “Much of what is today called 'social criticism'…”
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Pinker — “Feminism as a movement for political and social…”
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Pinker — “Nature is a hanging judge,' goes an old…”
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Pinker — “We are all members of the same flawed…”
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Pinker — “Disgust is intuitive microbiology…”
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Pinker — “The foundation of individual rights is the assumption…”
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Pinker — “People do more for their fellows than return…”
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Pinker — “Though many of my arguments will be coolly…”
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Pinker — “Nothing invests life with more meaning than the…”
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Pinker — “I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go…”
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Pinker — “One student asks: Why should I live? Steven…”
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Pinker — “Left-wing and right-wing political ideologies have themselves become…”
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Pinker — “As we care about more of humanity, we’re…”
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Pinker — “What is progress? You might think that the…”
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Pinker — “The standard explanation of the madness of crowds…”
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Pinker — “The first step toward wisdom is the realization…”
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Pinker — “Our greatest enemies are ultimately not our political…”
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Pinker — “Remember your math: an anecdote is not a…”
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Pinker — “People see violence as moral, not immoral: across…”
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Pinker — “A Babylonian in 1750 BCE would have had…”
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Pinker — “Our understanding of who we are, where we…”
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Pinker — “Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings…”
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Pinker — “The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can…”
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Pinker — “Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to…”
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Pinker — “Why give a robot an order to obey…”
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Pinker — “Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does…”
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Pinker — “Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to…”
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Pinker — “The mind is a neural computer…”
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Pinker — “The typical imperative from biology is not 'Thou…”
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Pinker — “The idea that boys want to sleep with…”
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Pinker — “Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in…”
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Pinker — “Chomsky's writings are 'classics' in Mark Twain's sense…”
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Pinker — “In the speech sound wave, one word runs…”
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Pinker — “Richard Feynman once wrote, “If you ever hear…”
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Pinker — “The better you know something, the less you…”
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Pinker — “As people age, they confuse changes in themselves…”
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Pinker — “In explaining any human shortcoming, the first tool…”
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Pinker — “Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between…”
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Pinker — “Dear White Fella When I am born I’m…”
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Pinker — “It's natural to think that living things must…”
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Pinker — “Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim…”
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Pinker — “Fiction is empathy technology…”
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Pinker — “Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn…”
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Pinker — “Of course genes can’t pull the levers of…”
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Pinker — “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned…”
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