On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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On Trump flouting norms and why this is a negative development: "[One of the] remarkable things about Donald Trump—and uniquely among American politicians—is that he has violated norms that have been in place, such as: you don’t boast, you don’t blatantly lie. I mean, all politicians lie because all human beings lie. But they lied under the cover of claiming to be honest. With Trump, it’s patent that he just doesn’t care about factual accuracy. He’ll say things that are in his interest and that
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Harvard professor tells '60 Minutes' there's a 'grain of truth' to Trump's argument that the university is a 'liberal mess'
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Harvard professor tells '60 Minutes' there's a 'grain of truth' to Trump's argument that the university is a 'liberal mess'
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“It is illegal, it is utterly inappropriate...” - Harvard Professor Steven Pinker responds to Donald Trump’s freezing of $2.65bn of funding to his university. #Newsnight | BBC Newsnight
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“It is illegal, it is utterly inappropriate...” - Harvard Professor Steven Pinker responds to Donald Trump’s freezing of $2.65bn of funding to his university. #Newsnight | BBC Newsnight
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Harvard professor Steven Pinker unpacks stakes of Trump legal battle
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Steven Pinker on Donald Trump, fascism, the climate and free speech
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Me: What the Trump administration is doing by this trolling—by this contempt for standards of evidence, truth, sound argument—is what many dictators have done. Namely, not so much lie, because people can see through lies. But just as Steve Bannon put it, flood the zone with—we're on the radio—so, flood the zone with feces; he didn’t use the word feces. That is, spread so much nonsense, some things that are true, some things that are false, that people just feel there’s no way to tell the differe
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Me: What the Trump administration is doing by this trolling—by this contempt for standards of evidence, truth, sound argument—is what many dictators have done. Namely, not so much lie, because people can see through lies. But just as Steve Bannon put it, flood the zone with—we're on the radio—so, flood the zone with feces; he didn’t use the word feces. That is, spread so much nonsense, some things that are true, some things that are false, that people just feel there’s no way to tell the differe
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In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for the economy. I don't see good things on the horizon. Steve [Stephen Moore] will just obviously argue with me about that. But Trump has what I call contagious confidence. He is so bullish and so confident. Well, he must kn
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In this exchange with Maher, I explain how Trump created a new norm—making truth optional. Maher: Don't you think it has something to do also with the confidence with which you back up your bullshit? I mean, we're going to talk about the economy on the panel. I think he has for the economy. I don't see good things on the horizon. Steve [Stephen Moore] will just obviously argue with me about that. But Trump has what I call contagious confidence. He is so bullish and so confident. Well, he must kn
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NYT: Trump official sent letter to Harvard by mistake
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60 Minutes: Harvard and the federal government have been in settlement talks for months, and in a statement, the Department of Education told us the Trump administration is actively working toward a deal with Harvard that holds them accountable for egregious civil rights violations and discrimination on campus, while restoring generous taxpayer dollar support to the institution. Harvard, in turn, says it's working to improve existing programs promoting ideological diversity. Me: Harvard has not
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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen before. As we see in the appointment of a crackpot as the Secretary for Health and Human Sciences, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and as we see in the imposition of tariffs that no thinker in their right mind could endorse, there's a lot of just pleasure in watching things burn. (From a Reason interview with Nick Gillespie in April.) | Steven Pinker
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Richard Hanania and I discuss the battle between Trump and Harvard. Me: Yeah, and I think the least bad outcome is that there is some kind of face-saving compromise — you know, unjust and deplorable, but better than shutting down a massive research enterprise that benefits all of humanity. Yeah. So I think we could live with a fine and various other conditions. I liken it to, you know, if a mugger in an alley is pointing a gun at you, there is some wisdom in not being a hero and handing over you
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With Biden’s debate stumble, we all saw the emperor’s new clothes vanish in real time. But when Trump followed up weeks later babbling about people eating dogs and cats, many just shrugged. In this exchange with Bill Maher, I explain why. Maher: I agree, that happened. We all saw that debate and everybody changed their mind. Why didn't it happen when Trump debated a few weeks later and was ranting about "they're eating the dogs" and "they're eating the cats?" Because I thought that was the momen
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Steven Pinker on free speech, Donald Trump and "the slide towards authoritarianism"
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Harvard professor on Trump Administration barring enrollment of foreign students at university
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On Friday, Bill Maher asked me if what happened with Biden at the disastrous debate with Trump was the same story as the Emperor's New Clothes. Me: The story of the Emperor's New Clothes is a story about common knowledge, because when the kid blurted it out, he actually wasn't telling anyone anything they didn't already know. They could see the Emperor was naked. But he still changed their knowledge, because by blurting it out with an earshot of the others, now everyone knew that everyone else k
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Five months back, I told BBC Radio 4 (@BBCPM on X) why Harvard had no choice but to resist the Trump administration's demands. | Steven Pinker
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Trump has ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome,’ Harvard professor says | On Balance
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Trump's America is 'on the way to autocracy' | Professor Steven Pinker on common knowledge
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Steven Pinker on Trump, violence and religion - UpFront
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Harvard professor says there's 'truth' to Trump's Ivy League claims
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Steven Pinker: Campus culture wars and Trump threaten future of US democracy
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“He’s figured out how to weaponise the instruments of Government” Harvard Professor and psychologist Steven Pinker discusses the differences between President Trump’s two terms in the White House. #Newsnight | BBC Newsnight
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Steven Pinker: How Donald Trump’s ‘gaslighting’ and ‘trolling’ is creating ‘toxic’ common knowledge
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Steven Pinker says Trump is 'clearly breaking the law' over foreign student ban
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Trump, Vaccines, and Inequality | Steven Pinker
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I spoke with Prof. Arora (@LaulPatricia) about how the postwar norm against aggressive war drove decades of declining violence—and how today’s “might makes right” politics, embraced by leaders like Putin and Trump, now threaten that hard-won peace. Me: The norm that countries do not go to war except in self-defense and with authorization of the UN Security Council has been rejected both by Putin and Trump. Of course, there were often violations of that in the past, including the United States in
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Harvard's Steven Pinker on Trump lawsuit, academic freedom and more
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Steven Pinker on Harvard, Trump and Academic Freedom
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Steven Pinker explains how changing the rules of the game can help us all win and prevent climate change. Watch the full interview now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8DHHt2sOmzw You can listen to the podcast on all good podcast apps and on apple podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ways-to-change-the-world-with-krishnan-guru-murthy/id1359195562 | Channel 4 News
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Political Correctness is Redpilling America
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