....wins rave reviews from billionaire capitalist! Who would have guessed? I understand that Pinker once upon a time did serious work, but starting with his polemic against putative skeptics about human nature (by which he really meant skeptics about disreputable evolutionary psychology of human nature) he really went off the ideological rails, becoming the right-wing media darling and intellectual clown act (complete with the hair!) we now have before us. (An earlier item of relevance.)
ADDENDUM: Many years ago (when I had hair!), a young (conservative) philosopher amusingly dubbed me the "Marxist with clown hair." Now we have found "the libertarian with clown hair"!
ANOTHER: An amusing take on the latest ideological nonsense from Pinker. (Thanks to Aaron Garrett for the pointer.)
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