Pinker took on an assignment from the Financial Times to write about what to expect from the 2020s for its end-of-year issue.

Judged as of 2019-12-27. True: the Financial Times published, in or for its end-of-year 2019 issue (late December 2019), a piece by Pinker about what to expect in the 2020s. Mostly true: the FT published such a Pinker piece around that time, but a minor detail differs (e.g. it ran in a weekend/online feature rather than the end-of-year issue, or its topic was slightly broader). Mixed: Pinker wrote an FT piece at that time on a different topic, or a forecast of the 2020s appeared in a different outlet. Mostly false: Pinker took part in an FT end-of-year feature only as one of many quoted contributors and did not write the piece. False: evidence shows that no such FT assignment or piece by Pinker exists.

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1. E1 stevenpinker.com · files · pinker, Curriculum Vitae Steven Pinker stevenpinker.com (Steven Pinker's CV, October 2025 version) Own record

   “Pinker, S. (2019) What can we expect from the 2020s? Financial Times, Dec. Dec. 27.”

2. E2 Publications Steven Pinker (stevenpinker.com, OpenScholar site listing publications by year) Own record

   “Pinker, S. (2019). What can we expect from the 2020s?.”

Pinker's CV (E1) lists a specific publication, "What can we expect from the 2020s?", in the Financial Times dated December 27, 2019. That fits the claim that he wrote a 2020s forecast for the FT's end-of-year issue. His publications page (E2) lists the same 2019 title. Both sources come from Pinker himself, but they are specific bibliographic records of the published piece, not general statements, and nothing in the evidence contradicts them.