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When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
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- The Fifth Column
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- May 14, 2026
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- 6312
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This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe - Steven Pinker on why “common knowledge” is much stranger than it sounds -The social machinery behind weddings, money, and power -How a norm starts to die once someone breaks it and gets rewarded -Trump as the great destroyer of polite restraints -The institutions that lost the authority to enforce trust -How new taboos appear without anyone admitting who created them -T…