Bestselling author Steven Pinker on the importance of rationality: Only rationality allows us to navigate a world that threatens to spiral out of control. Thanks to rationality, humankind has discovered natural laws, traveled to the moon, and developed vaccines in record time. Even if some people believe in conspiracy theories and fake news, humans are rational. This distinguishes them from all other living beings. In his new book, Steven Pinker, the champion of the Enlightenment, makes a case for rational thinking and explains the most important tools for it. He guides the reader through the fundamentals of logic and critical thinking, explaining probability and the role of chance, the relationship between belief and evidence, risk and statistics. After this crash course in rationality, we are equipped to make much better rational decisions, both alone and with others. Biography (Steven Pinker) Steven Pinker, born in 1954, studied psychology in Montreal and at Harvard University. For 20 years he taught at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT in Boston and has been a professor of psychology at Harvard University since 2003. His research focuses on language and thought, and he also writes regularly for the "New York Times," "Time," and "The New Republic." His work has received numerous awards. New product