Renowned linguist Stephen Pinker argues that despite modern critiques, Enlightenment rationality is central to material and moral progress, self-betterment, and a healthy democratic society.

As technology has put a dizzying array of facts and counterfactuals at our disposal, world-changing social and scientific breakthroughs have often been overshadowed by conspiracy theories and charlatans.

In our 'post-truth' world, rife with fake news and content competing for our attention, how can we separate truth from lies, or objective evidence from subjective feeling?

One of the world's leading thinkers on language and psychology, Steven Pinker is a Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Time, and The New Republic.

In this follow up to his bestseller Enlightenment Now, Pinker outlines an urgent case for rational thinking as the pressing issue of our time.

Arguing that rationality is the key driver of history and moral progress, Pinker exhaustively analyzes the fundamentals of rational thinking, including the fields of logic, statistics, and probability theory.