Is This the Death of Harvard? - Steven Pinker

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and Harvard College Professor. One of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, he is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker has written many books for general audiences including The Blank Slate (2002), Enlightenment Now (2018) and his most recent, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WK3JNLT/ Check out more of Steven’s work: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000AQ3GGO/ SPONSOR: Qualia Senolytic. Go to Qualialife.com/TRIG for up to 50% off and use code TRIG at checkout for an additional 15% off. Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you value honesty, integrity and diversity all things that are increasingly lacking in established media,
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0:21.0	We're talking about the decline of enlightened values.
0:25.0	I mean, what's going on?
0:26.5	Unless they are championed, people will bax-light toward authoritarianism and pureness and
0:32.0	and tribalism.
0:34.0	So it would be a mistake to think that universities are just
0:38.0	madrasas of hard left indoctrination.
0:41.0	There is that and it really is a problem, but it is...
0:44.0	Each campus has a small madras of the work indoctrination.
0:47.6	But it's not the entire campus. It's not the entire campus.
0:50.6	What we also seem to be talking about is a lack of backbone, to put it bluntly, within
0:56.2	university leaders. Oh, I'm questionably.
1:00.2	If you value honesty, integrity and diversity all things that are increasingly lacking in established media,
1:06.2	then consider supporting us a trigonometry. As a member, you'll get ad-free and extended interviews,
1:11.6	plus exclusive content.
1:13.6	Click the membership link on the podcast description
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