Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk may be cheap, and actions may speak louder than words. Nevertheless, rhetoric matters. It arouses passions, noble and base.

"What’s wrong with people?" – Steven Pinker (said while riffing on his bubbe). "It’s not your fault." – Dr. Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) to Will Hunting in the eponymous good movie. In chapter ten of ...

The world seems awash with irrationality, evident in anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and political conspirators. What is to be done? Steven Pinker’s spirited, amusing, and lucid new book argues ...