“It’s precisely because such #ideas are contentious and nonobvious—they’re a far cry from asserting “that the sun rises in the east,” #Pinker writes—that they serve as reliable signals of group membership.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Do You Know What I Know?
Do You Know What I Know?

Joshua Rothman writes about common knowledge and the book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .,” by Steven Pinker.

The New Yorker