0:00 – How to save Harvard
12:42 p.m. – The institution of neutrality
2:10 p.m. – Universities should be nonviolent
20:31- How important is the diversity of points of view?
27:22 – How bad is DEI?
32:02- How university policies are developed
47:07- Why do progressives hate progress
52:00 – The value of perspective
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/03/27/steven-pinker-what-went-wrong-at-harvard/
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A year ago, he helped found the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, “an academic organization that advocates for the free and civil exchange of ideas inside and outside the classroom.” / » Following the campus reaction left to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, he published "A Five-Point Plan to Save Harvard From Itself" in the Boston Globe. His ultra-influential institution, he wrote, "is now where using the wrong pronoun constitutes a hanging offense, but calling for a new Holocaust depends on context./" Nick Gillespie and Pinker of Reason discuss whether higher education is doomed to fail and why. Many people on both the right and the left are skeptical of moral and material progress and of how his "stereoscopic" photography fits into his broader worldview.
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