Elementary-school students learning how to write simultaneously learn the rules of grammar, and the two approaches can be difficult to balance. It's why many teachers ingrain in their students a ...

Are we headed to hell in a handcart? If paralysis in government and violence at home aren't carrying us in that direction, then climate change and terrorism abroad might. Or so it seems. To the rescue ...

Whether you're trying to sound sophisticated or simply repeating what you've heard, word fails are all too common and can make smart people sound dumb. In his latest book, "The Sense of Style," ...

S teven Pinker is about as close as you can come to being an academic celebrity. The Harvard professor of psychology has written seven books for a general readership in addition to his scholarly work, ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Philosophy has a problem with expertise. The discipline is, at its heart, a form of questioning that struggles to provide for easy or ...

Steven Pinker—the Harvard cognitive scientist who also chairs the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary—is not a fan of many of the “rules” one finds in modern guides to grammar and usage, ...

In the week that I interview the cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker in his office at Harvard, police release the agonizing recordings of emergency calls made during the Sandy ...