Rob Tracinski talks to Steven Pinker about his new book, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. We talk about how using reason is like flying on instruments, why reason comes more naturally than it might seem, and why we can’t blame all our problems on the cavemen.

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