“Who’s Getting Your Vote?” Reason. 2004 November.
Steven Pinker
Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of The Blank Slate (Penguin), How the Mind Works (W.W. Norton), and The Language Instinct (HarperCollins).
2004 vote: Kerry. The reason is reason: Bush uses too little of it. In the war on terror, his administration stints on loose-nuke surveillance while confiscating nail clippers and issuing color-coded duct tape advisories. His restrictions on stem cell research are incoherent, his dismissal of possible climate change inexcusable.That’s not all! Pinker voted for Gore in 2000, though “with misgivings”.
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Addendum from Razib: I chatted with Steven Pinker last spring (thanks to an intro from Steve), and we talked politics for about 2 minutes. I got the impression that he had contempt for the whole repulsive intellectual dishonesty of the process (the way he said “coalitional politics” dripped with disdain).
Also, I was surprised to see that Michael Shermer of Skeptic is a libertarian. I do believe it is true that though seculars tend to be left-liberal, libertarians tend to be seculars (control-f “god” on this page).
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