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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

545. Reaction to Harvard: Scam? | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jordan Peterson breaks down what the media has framed as a battle between Harvard University and the Trump administration—but it's much deeper than that. Peterson exposes the ideological decay at the heart of elite academic institutions, driven by the dogma of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and enforced through cowardice, corruption, and groupthink. From firsthand experience at Harvard, McGill, and the University of Toronto, Peterson connects the dots between academia's collapse and its ripple effect on society. With insights into why DEI statements are eroding scientific credibility, how universities became ideological factories, and why the future of higher education may lie in alternatives like Peterson Academy, this episode is a must-watch for anyone who cares about truth, merit, and intellectual freedom. This episode was filmed on April 30th, 2025. Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:01.0

So, in recent weeks, there's been a well-publicized war between, in principle, Harvard University,

0:12.0

and the Trump administration.

0:16.0

Or at least that's how it's been framed by the remnants, the pathetic and sad remnants of the legacy media,

0:25.4

most particularly the utterly despicable New York Times. Now, you see, this isn't really a war

0:32.5

between Harvard, that August institution and the mega Trump administration.

0:39.2

This is a much deeper problem.

0:40.8

And the reason that it seems to me that you should all know about it is because whatever

0:46.4

the universities are doing that's corrupt and appalling spills over into the broader

0:51.7

culture in a way that's cataclysmic. The people who end up running

0:59.1

everything come from the universities, particularly the Ivy Leagues. And so what that means is that

1:04.0

if those institutions become corrupt, and they have become corrupt, make no bones about it, then everything they feed

1:14.2

into becomes corrupt in exactly the same manner. And so now we could be thinking that it's Harvard,

1:20.6

that august institution, against the strange mega-Trump conservatives, or we could be thinking that this is a way deeper problem

1:31.1

that concerns everyone. And so we're going to investigate that today. I'm going to give you some

1:36.1

facts and some opinions, and I'm going to read to you from the New York Times covering this

1:44.0

debacle and also from the Montreal Gazette

1:47.9

concerning McGill University in Canada, which Canadians like to regard as the Harvard of the North.

1:53.9

And now, you see, I also taught at both of those. I was a student at McGill, and I taught there

2:00.0

as a teaching assistant and running my own

2:03.5

seminars for my graduate student friends.

2:06.8

And then I worked at Harvard for six years in the 90s when it was truly an outstanding

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