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Live in the U.S. & Canada

Steven Pinker has spent forty years measuring the world rather than feeling it, and what he has found has both unsettled the left and frustrated the right. This September, he takes the stage across the U.S. and Canada for an evening of ideas, evidence, and questions from the floor.

New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal Sep 2026
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In this live event, he will go beyond the headlines to unpack the arguments and intellectual foundations behind his most influential work. Audiences can expect a wide-ranging exploration of language, rationality, human progress, and the ideas behind his most influential books, including The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. He’ll also offer a look at themes from his latest work, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, and take audience questions.

Experience his ideas live on stage across New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal.
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Thinkable was created for those who believe serious ideas deserve a stage, and that engaging with them should be as enjoyable as it is meaningful. From the start, its mission has been to open conversations with the world’s leading thinkers to wider audiences, making them both exciting and accessible.

The vision is grounded in the experience of its founder, Desh Amila, who has spent more than a decade bringing major intellectual voices to audiences across Australia, the United States, and Canada. Through initiatives such as Think Inc, the world’s first intellectual touring company, and This Is 42, Desh introduced leading figures including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall, Steven Pinker, Michio Kaku, and many others to live stages, expanding public access to world-class ideas across these regions. His work demonstrated that audiences in Australia, the United States, and Canada have a strong public appetite for serious, challenging conversations, and he helped build the infrastructure to make them possible.

Thinkable builds on that legacy. It exists to create spaces where performance gives way to substance, where curiosity is rewarded, and where audiences leave not just entertained, but transformed by the power of ideas.

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