02-19-2026, 04:47 PM
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker writes about authoritarian regimes and their fear of what he calls "common knowledge:"
https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-a...-knowledge
https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-a...-knowledge
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)