How does ‘common knowledge’ shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas
- Written by Jamie Q. Roberts, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
Steven PinkerGage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAI don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans perform; and even more so about what can and can’t be said about these rituals, especially when the rituals involve obvious...





