Some people have suggested I should be doing even more political ranting here. This would be a mistake for many reasons, not least that I am simply not as good as it as real professionals.
For more cerebral enlightenment, H Allan Orr has a fairly good review of Pinkers Blank Slate in the latest New York Review Of Books. In everything Ive read about the book (not including the book itself, because, well, life is short) the general impression is that Pinker does a rip-roaring job of torching a straw man, but that his preferred kind of nativism is just as implausibly extreme as Lockes or Humes empiricism. Have there been any reviews not saying basically that?