The Next Big Idea | 30 September 2021 | 1h 01m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Steven Pinker about his book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. Argues how and why we should all learn a bit of logic, get better at sniffing out fallacies, embrace institutions that safeguard empirical truths, and acknowledge that halting, imperfect progress is better than no progress at all.