Pinker's new book on common knowledge reveals how recursive mentalizing—thinking about thinking—shapes everything from social ...

I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals ...

How have the unsaid understandings between us shaped our world – society, history, culture? In his new book, the Harvard psychologist digs for answers.

In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon ...

The oddities of social life—and our efforts to cooperate and coordinate—may turn on our assumptions about the knowledge we share.

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

Before boarding a flight to South Africa in 2013, Justine Sacco sent a sardonic joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding—I’m white!” By the time her ...

The Durango Herald has said it will not print a letter to the editor that is flat out wrong. It won’t print lies. Now, if only staff members would apply that same criteria to the rest of the paper.