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Steven Pinker is represented by the David Lavin Agency, Ltd.

  • Streaming video plus text of "Writing In The 21st Century" on Edge.org.
  • Streaming video plus text of "A History of Violence" at the Edge Master Class 2011
  • Streaming video of "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature"
  • Streaming video of "The Cognitive Revolution at Fifty Plus or Minus One: A Conversation with Jerome Bruner, Susan Carey, Noam Chomsky, and George Miller, introduced by Steven Pinker" Click here for the graphics, captions, and inauguration photos  of an exhibit in William James Hall at Harvard on the cognitive revolution.
  • Streaming video of "The Blank Slate" at MIT
  • Streaming video of "Pinker's Farewell" at MIT
  • Streaming video of "Words and Rules" at Princeton
  • Streaming video of "The Science of Gender and Science: Pinker vs. Spelke, A Debate" at Harvard

Appearances on Radio, Television, and the Web

October 7, 2014, WNPR The Colin McEnroe Show "An Interview with Steven Pinker"
October 8, 2014, KQED Radio "Avoiding Zombie Nouns: Writing Advice From Steven Pinker"
October 8, 2014, The Economist "Why Believe the Sticklers?"
September 30, 2014, WBUR Radio Boston "Steven Pinker Draws From Linguistics To Answer Questions Of Writing Style"
June 30, 2013, Podcast BBC Radio "Desert Island Discs"
Oct. 4, 2011, 6:50-7:00AM NPR "The Takeaway"
Oct. 4, 2011, 12:30-12:45PM New Hampshire Public Radio "Word of Mouth"
Oct. 4, 2011, 6:30PM NPR "Marketplace"
Oct. 5, 2011, 1:20-2:00PM WNYC-AM, FM (NPR) "The Leonard Lopate Show"
Oct. 7, 2011, 9:00-10:00AM Wisconsin Public Radio "The Veronica Rueckert Show"
Oct. 7, 2011, 3:00-4:00PM NPR "Talk of the Nation's Science Friday"
Oct. 8, 2011, Blogginheads.tv "Science Saturday"
Oct. 10, 2011, 12:00-1:00PM KCUR-FM / Kansas City Public Radio "Up to Date"
Oct. 10, 2011, 3:00-4:00PM WBUR-FM (NPR) / "Radio Boston"
Oct. 11, 2011, 1:00-2:00PM WAMU-FM (NPR) / "The Kojo Nnamdi Show"
Oct. 13/14, 2011, 11:00-12:00AM WGN-AM / Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg
Oct. 18, 2011, 11:30PM Comedy Central / The Colbert Report
Oct. 19, 2011, 9:00-9:10AM WFLA / Newsradio "AM Tampa Bay"
Oct. 19, 2011, 9:20-9:30AM KLIF Talk Radio 560 / "Jeff Bolton Show" 
Oct. 19, 2011, 9:30-9:45AM KKZN AM 760 / "The David Sirota Show
Oct. 20, 2011, 9:00-10:00AM WNPR-FM (Connecticut Public Radio) / "Where We Live"
Oct. 24, 2011, 12:20-1:00PM KUOW-FM 94.9 (NPR) "The Conversation"
Oct. 24, 2011, 1:00-2:00PM Salem Radio Network "The Michael Medved Show"
Oct. 25/26, 2011, 11:00PM-02:00AM "Coast to Coast AM" radio show
Oct. 28, 2011, 10:00-11:00AM KGO-AM "The Ronn Owens Program"
Oct. 30, 2011, 3:00-4:00PM KUSP-FM "The 7th Avenue Project"
Nov. 13, 2011, 5:00PM, "WHY?" Radio show
Dec. 7, 2011, NPR "Talk of The Nation"
Dec. 7, 2011, Brown University "Radio Open Source"
Dec. 15, 2004, 6:00-7:30 PM WMBR-FM 88.1, Steven Pinker appeared on "Dinnertime Sampler" to play a collection of the songs he uses to introduce his lectures in "The Human Mind" course at Harvard. Click here to download the recorded audio file for this show. Click here, here and here to see playlists from Pinker's three appearances on the show.
Dec. 12, 2010, 1PM EST, Philosophy Talk
Oct. 18, 2011, The Colbert Report
Feb. 2009, The Colbert Report
Feb. 2007, The Colbert Report

Podcasts

Mother Jones
Nature, soon
The New Scientist, soon
Penguin Books
Thoughtcast
Earth and Sky
The Guardian
Australian Broadcasting System "All in the Mind"