" This man drew on Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process to argue that "exogenous forces" such as cosmopolitanism and the "escalator of reason" are responsible for the decline in violence and invoked the notion of differential support for the intelligence distribution by (*) gender in a predictable defense of Larry Summers.
This man attacked his intellectual opponents for their prior commitments to human perfectibility and innate equality, which he associates with the gulag, an approach one critic referred to as this man's "Lockean-Rousseauian-Cartesian scarecrow." This man drew on Norbert Elias' The Civilizing Process to argue that "exogenous forces" such as cosmopolitanism and the "escalator of reason" are responsible for the decline in violence and invoked the notion of differential support for the intelligence distribution by (*) gender in a predictable defense of Larry Summers. This man concurred with Noam Chomsky's concept of a "universal grammar" but argues that innate language is the product of evolution. For 10 points, name this Harvard linguist and cocktail party intellectual, the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Language Instinct.
This man attacked his intellectual opponents for their prior commitments to human perfectibility and innate equality, which he associates with the gulag, an approach one critic referred to as this man's "Lockean-Rousseauian-Cartesian scarecrow.
Steven Pinker