Steven Pinker

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755 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 23 Jan

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · What Everyone Knows You Know with Steven Pinker · 23 Jan 2026 podcast

So the title of the book is When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... And there's a story behind that.

The subtitle is Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.

Whoa.

And I can explain all of those things.

Leave anything out there.

That is, that's a title.

Yes.

I'm sure you'll get there.

Of course.

Absolutely.

Of course.

Now I want to hear the story behind this title, because that's a lot.

Okay, so common knowledge in the technical sense refers to the situation where I know something, you know it, I know that you know it, you know that I know it, I know that you know that I know it, ad infinitum.

So it's when everyone knows that everyone knows, and the dot, dot, dot is essential.

I had to fight with my editor.

He says, oh, it'll screw up the computer listings on Amazon.

That's the infinity.

Yes, yes.

Norton.

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