TrackingAcademics, TrackingWriters, HumanNature.

* ''TheBlankSlate''

[http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2006_09_30_thenewrepublic.html Pinker] vs. [http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/whencognitivescienceenterspolitics Lakoff]

Pinker, from above:

:The standard contemporary analysis sees the political right as having a tragic vision in which human nature is permanently afflicted by limitations of knowledge, wisdom, and virtue, and the political left as having a utopian vision in which human nature is naturally innocent, but corrupted by defective social institutions and perfectible by reformed ones.

Goddammit, Steven, ''who'''s being condescending?