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Steven Pinker, part 1

PinkerKahan

Steven Pinker speaks with Marcy Kahan about their shared childhood, good writing and democratic dictionaries. Steven Pinker speaks with his old friend and schoolmate, the RLF’s Marcy Kahan, about coming of age in Montreal’s Anglophone Jewish community, the nature of good writing and the ‘classic style’, and managing a dictionary by democratic processes.


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