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...Nothing really came out of the meeting,” Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson on Friday. “We’re still circulating drafts and decisions about it haven’t been made...
...student of two other Harvard professors who made the list—Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam—said they both deserved the honor...
...They both can explain their theories in a very straightforward manner that’s not overwhelming,” said Emily F. Murphy ’07, a former student of Pinker and a current student of Putnam. “They both would get my vote...
...STEVEN PINKER...
...1930s, F.D.R. fought a war on crime. Lyndon Johnson launched a war on poverty in 1964. In the '70s, Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate...