You could call Steve Pinker, Harvard's star psychology professor, a public intellectual. He made his scholarly reputation with a 1990 article arguing that the human ability to learn language developed ...

In my previous post, What is Language For? I observed that by around 4 years of age, every cognitively normal human child on the planet is a linguistic genius. But the apparent ease with which each ...

In my previous post, What is Language For? I observed that by around 4 years of age, every cognitively normal human child on the planet is a linguistic genius. But the apparent ease with which each ...