Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars

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  This is The Guardian.

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  The Guardian Archive Long Read.

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  I'm Alex Blaisdell, the author of Pinker's Progress, the celebrity scientist at the center of the culture wars,

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  published in 2021. This is the profile of a very public thinker and a darling of the billionaire class confronting,

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  or not, a crisis in their picture of the world.

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  It's about his ways of seeing and habits of mind and how they succeed

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