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Tilting our way across Quincy Street we come upon the Barker Center. Here, students can take creative writing courses with luminaries of fiction such as Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Pinker, L. Ron Hubbard, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. At this point, we will break for lunch. We usually recommend the best bacon cheeseburger in the square, the “Alan Dershowitz” at Bartley’s. Before breaking bread, we make sure to lead the group in a good ol’-fashioned Harvard prayer, so we face the B-school and genuflect five times to the gods...
When asked by the British magazine, Steven Pinker, Harvard’s Johnstone professor of psychology, refused to predict the biggest breakthrough of the next half century...
...Pinker was travelling and could not be reached for comment this week...
...1920s, “Seinfeld,” and the Super Bowl, and has veritable glossaries of pop for the Average Joe and what she calls “the community of commitment-centered words.” Two familiar Harvard personalities, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt, even get mentions...
...fact that the university, as Pinker writes, is “about reason, pure and simple” makes it the ideal place to discuss something as fundamentally unreasonable as faith without the baggage of intolerance and hysteria that its discussion occasions elsewhere...