Steven Pinker: Young people sick and tired of being told, 'you can't say that, you can't think that' on campus

Steven Pinker's data-driven, empirical approach to charting human progress rests on a firm foundation of Enlightenment values: reason, science, and humanism.

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He is a fierce defender of liberalism, democracy, and market economies, and believes a variety of forces are conspiring against them: populism of both the right and left, religious fundamentalism, and political correctness, among others. 

He also has emerged as a champion of reasoned, civil debate on college campuses, pushing back against cancel culture, and what he views as a ‘political monoculture’ in academia.