Graphs!
Steven Pinker needs to understand that no one lives life in the aggregate.
Epstein and Pinker again
According to this account, it’s Epstein who walked away from Pinker, not Pinker who walked away from Epstein.
Epstein and Pinker
The lack of moral outrage here speaks volumes about how Epstein found audiences and allies in academia.
Steven Pinker, name-caller
“Nathan Heller’s an ignoramus.”
Bad advice and misinformation
“It’s easier to persuade someone that what you’re saying is true and useful if you can keep from calling them stupid.” A coda to my Steven Pinker review.
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
“The Sense of Style is a disappointing book. It presents its author as a figure of urbane intelligence — witty, knowing, calmly superior — doing battle against agitated, deluded, self-styled experts. But the enemy in this book is a straw man or woman, or a whole army of straw folk. And the non-imaginary writer whose work poses perhaps the greatest challenge to Pinker’s own claim to authority is nowhere to be found in these pages.”
Pinker on Strunk and White
“His presentation of Strunk and White is an assemblage of misinformation, decontextualization, received ideas, and misunderstandings.”