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What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview

What went wrong at Harvard | Steven Pinker | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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Psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker is one of the leading defenders of academic freedom and liberal values of limited government, secularism, tolerance, and free enterprise.

0:00- How to save Harvard
12:42- The institution of neutrality
14:10- Universities should be…

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  1. I haven't yet listened to the entire conversation, but in the first 10 minutes Steven Pinker starts that the university should have a policy of neutrality so that students and faculty don't have to worry about an opposing opinion negatively impacting their professional prospects. But of course then they wouldn't know if their Dean or a faculty member did have an opinion that they were disagreeing with and would hold it against them. So the question; is it better for people in power to be prejudiced and to be public about it or for people not in power to be secretly impacted because they didn't know the positions of the people in power?

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  3. It is a felony under federal law to intentionally ā€œsolicit, command, induce, or otherwise endeavor to persuadeā€ another person to engage in a crime of violence against a person or property.Ā 18 U.S.C.Ā Ā§ 373. Many states have similar laws.

  4. Is perceived progress really just the measurement of change. But when we as a society are in a period of plateau then inevitably we become desensitised to objective progress or utility and so need to seek for more change. In short is objective happiness or morality out of reach?

  5. I don't know why anyone is surprised by the state of Harvard, they did give David Hogg a degree. David keeps showing how the quality of Harvard education has declined significantly.

  6. We need to learn to talk both sides. This is more effective by far than changing structures and policies, which require people to enforce them.

    We need to leave our bubbles and engage with people, even when they disagree with us.

  7. Hit the wayback machine to 1983. I chose a UC campus on the basis of proximity to good surf. A H.S. friend went to Harvard. I'd grill him at Semester breaks over beers for primary source narritive on the Gestalt in The Peoples Republic of Cambridge. He was in USAF ROTC program. He told me at freshman orientation the Harvard Admin reps. reccomended all ROTC students refrain from wearing ROTC uniforms on campus b/c they'd get serially hurranged and potentially assaulted by groupscules of radical leftests including "The Sparticus Youth Brigade". As a strident progressive whale lover, I said; "Let me get this straight, the Harvard admin., in effect want you deny and renounce the sacrifice of the 400,000+ US military who died to protect our democracy and freedom, or get serially hassled by healthy chunk of the (white, affluent, bourgeois) student body? At a school w/a private endowment larger the GDP of a small country? "Yes, that's right". I told him, "please tell me you flatly refused to do that", which he did. I wanted to hug him. Not that there's anything wrong w/that….

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