In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind,
explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic
wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits - a doctrine
held by many intellectuals during the past century - denies our common humanity and our individual
preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our
understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates
that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest
acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

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