"The world has far too much morality.”

Steven Pinker, joining us from America via Zoom, is a cognitive psychologist, linguist, best-selling author, and one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. He is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.  He is well known for his defense of the Enlightenment and moral progress.

Pinker has been named as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” He is the author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters and Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.

“Pinker is right. Not just a bit right, but completely, utterly, incontrovertibly right.” — The Daily Mail