Steven Pinker -Opinions have been criminalized

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: -.6pt;">This episode with one of today’s most influential thinkers will leave you thinking more. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Professor Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates, one of Foreign Policy’s “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” and Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Professor Pinker talks about his research and the concepts he reveals in his best-selling books, which are surprising, enlightening, and inspiring.</span> <span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Circular Std Book',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> For instance, Pinker’s Better Angels of Our Nature reveals that violence is, in fact, in decline, and we are living in the most peaceful moment in our species’ existence. In Rationality, Pinker examines how humans can, on the one hand, develop COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year yet produce volumes of fake news daily. In The Blank Slate, he examines the origins of human nature and challenges the arguments of nature versus nurture.</span></p> <p class="MsoNorm