Freethought Radio Podcast Episodes featuring Steven Pinker

Guest: Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio - April 28, 2014 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
IN THE NEWS: Dan Barker and substitute co-host Andrew Seidel discuss FFRF's freethought display in Daley Plaza and proselytizing Clemson University coach Dabo Swinney. We announce a major FFRF legal victory stopping prayer at city council meetings in Pismo Beach, California. Then we talk with sc...

Steven Pinker: Why Rationality Reduces Violence

Freethought Radio - January 09, 2012 12:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
Wishing all you heathens, skeptics and hell-bound atheists a happy new year! Steven Pinker is quite the thinker. The Harvard professor and evolutionary psychologist has a new book on the decline of violence. We'll hear from Prof. Pinker and the good news of why rationality reduces violence.

Guest: Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio - October 10, 2011 12:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
FFRF's complaint removing a cross from a water tower in Tennessee is getting attention. And so is Steven Pinker's hot off the press new book released this week, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence is in Decline. We will talk with Steven Pinker about why he thinks humanism is triumphing.

Guest: Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio - March 22, 2008 14:52 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard, is the featured guest, discussing both his nontheistic views, and his concerns about the current administration's attacks against science in order to placate the religious right. "Theocracy Alert" di...

Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio - December 30, 2006 17:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
Evolutionary psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker ("The Blank Slate") will talk about his atheism, hypothesize about why religion exists and discuss his books. The show includes a look at the unorthodox Robert Burns, author of "Auld Lang Syne." Theocracy Alert looks at the practice o...