life and ideas of Plato in the context of ancient Greece and modern dialogues in which Plato is brought to life in the 21st century, and demonstrates the relevance of philosophy by arguing with contemporary figures such as a software engineer at Google headquarters, a right-wing talk show host, an affective neuroscientist, and others. In addition to Barnard, Goldstein has taught at Columbia, Rutgers, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and since 2014, she has been a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities in London. In 2016, she was a visiting professor in the English department at New York University. She has held visiting fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute, Brandeis University, the Santa Fe Institute, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. In 2011, she delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale University, "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature". She serves on the Council on Values of the World Economic Forum, and on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America. Goldstein's writing has also appeared in chapters in a number of edited books, in journals including The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Tikkun, Commentary, and in blog format in The Washington Post's "On Faith" section. Personal life Goldstein married her first husband, physicist Sheldon Goldstein, in 1969, and they divorced in 1999. They are the parents of the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and poet Danielle Blau. In a 2006 interview with Luke Ford, Goldstein said: In 2007, she married cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker. Awards and fellowships 2014 National Humanities Medal (presented September 10, 2015, at the White House by President Barack Obama) 2014 Richard Dawkins Award 2013 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College 2013 Moment Magazine Creativity Award 2012 Franke Visiting Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University 2011 Humanist of the Year awarded April 2011 by the American Humanist Association 2011 Freethought Heroine awarded October 2011 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation 2011 Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute Best Fiction Book of 2010 ("36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction"), Christian Science Monitor Honorary Doctorate, Emerson College, 2008 Humanist Laureate, awarded by the International Academy of Humanism, 2008 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, 2006–2007 Guggenheim Fellow, 2006–2007 Koret Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought, 2006, for Betraying