The oddities of social life—and our efforts to cooperate and coordinate—may turn on our assumptions about the knowledge we share.

Steven Pinker, the eminent linguist and psychologist, muses on what happens when knowledge is, or isn’t, shared.

Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new study. Our ability to store ...

The professor has been critical of DEI and wokeness at Harvard for years. But now, he's defending the university against Trump’s attacks.