The article pitches Pinker as a man who sees the bright side of things and that liberalism is going too far on college campuses by practicing their beliefs. Whi

The article pitches Pinker as a man who sees the bright side of things and that liberalism is going too far on college campuses by practicing their beliefs. While he may have a point, he’s not remotely the unbiased good hearted guy the article intros him as. From Wikipedia: In 2020, an open letter to the Linguistic Society of America requesting the removal of Pinker from its list of LSA Fellows and its list of media experts was signed by hundreds of academics.[96][97] The letter accused Pinker of a "pattern of drowning out the voices of people suffering from racist and sexist violence, in particular in the immediate aftermath of violent acts and/or protests against the systems that created them", citing as examples six tweets and a phrase used in his 2011 book.[98] Pinker said that through this letter he was being threatened by "a regime of intimidation that constricts the theatre of ideas".[99][100][101] Several academics criticized the letter and expressed strong support for Pinker