Steven Pinker

China

Wuhan wager: the $400 ‘bio bet’ that predicted Covid

The two scientists involved are Lord (Martin) Rees, former president of the Royal Society, and Steven Pinker, the Harvard linguist

Matt Ridley

What makes a Christian?

With a mixture of trepidation and exhilarated curiosity, I await our future

Richard Dawkins

The best of Paul Johnson

The late author wrote a Spectator column from 1981 to 2009

The Spectator

Only an idiot would choose to live at any other time than the present

Steven Pinker’s new book is a characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present. On average, humans are by orders of magnitude healthier, wealthier, nicer, happier, longer lived, more free and better … Read more

Sam Leith

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