Steven Pinker doesn’t just want you to be happy; he wants you to be grateful too. His new book, “Enlightenment Now,” is a spirited and exasperated rebuke to anyone who refuses to concede that the ...

Steven Pinker, author of the new book "Enlightenment Now," wants us to look past the headlines and acknowledge global progress over the last few decades. Here's why that's not as simple as he wants it ...

How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became one of the world’s most contentious thinkers ...