Harvard professor Steven Pinker unpacks stakes of Trump legal battle

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1. Trump is trying to take over America. he wants to be king of America, a dictator, not a president. Not a republican but a communist modeled after his friend Putin. He’s had a lot of years dealing with KGB and Russia ever since the 80s. Now you’re seeing him trying to act the same way. This president needs to go. He needs to be impeached before he can do any more damage.

2. Does Harvard not have an Endowment fund of 50Billion? Talking about animal testing and on top, euthenising the animals, is not the best message.

3. Where is the LAWS for UNLAWFUL Presidents???

4. Steven is, once more, on the right side of history. Steven stood up for free speech and against excess wokeism when it was badly needed, and he is now correctly calling out the dangers of Trumpism. The attacks on the institutions of democracy and those of discovery and innovation are extremely dangerous, and some of the comments from Americans are shocking, betraying a failure of the U.S. education system at large. As a biosciences professor and doctor myself, I applaud Steven in the loudest way possible. Thank you Steven!

5. No no, everything is great under the enlightenment. No need to act or panic. All is good. We’re not medieval. The throat-grappling instinct is gone.

6. either side is not all wrong or right, both need compromise. Harvard has lots of money, and should use some to cover the cost for so called young scientists, not too much on fed funding for a private university

7. It’s easy to silence critics when their lies are debunked.

8. Steven needs to get outside. Or is he experiencing late onset albinism? Regardless, I still love him, and I guess it's better than orange dye :D))

9. Wow.. Education is really becoming Illegal in America

10. Respected and dear proff; pinsker if in Harvard you teach that money is a commodity and dealing it as such around the whole world then what about those economists who were advocating that money is medium of exchange to deal it as commodity is to destroy its worth. Were those economists were fools since 1929-1930 the experience of all those years and repeated crimes have not let to ponder over such issues or going along repeating . why you don’t let other currencies to be dealt as not ditching and to be ditched yourself at lost .

11. EDUCATION. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. North American Review April, 1866.
    
    “I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education. We have already taken, at the planting of the Colonies, (for aught I know for the first time in the world,) the initial step, which for its importance might have been resisted as the most radical of revolutions, thus deciding at the start the destiny of this country,—this, namely, that the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will: not alone in the elements, but, by further provision, in the languages, in sciences, in the useful and in elegant arts. The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge, and, at last, the ripest results of art and science.”

12. Liberals/Democrats really do have a certain look, and it's not pretty. 😂😂😂

13. Pinker has always been such an optimist regarding human progress thus far. It is rather unprecedented of him to weigh in on politics like this.

14. 😂 Harvard has no chance. This dude is insane. Saying things without facts.

15. FRAUD, WASTE, ABUSE=harvard, screwing our youth minds.

16. Bravo Harvard

17. Harvard and Yale students faced discrimination, particularly against Jewish and African American students, according to a Yale Daily News article. This discrimination manifested in various forms, including the limiting of Jewish enrollment, the use of racist imagery and language in the student newspaper, and racist attitudes towards African American students. 0:18

18. If you got money from the govt. you are required to follow the rules of yhe govt. Just common sense.

19. Trump thinks he can play the university with some suggestion techniques, lies and cheap one-liners.

    That worked with his voters, but not against intelligent people.

20. All I heard is we need this money. Please don’t stop the funding. Grants are not entitlements…

21. i neither trust nor believe people like him. -er, -stein, -berg

22. Harvard who opening is racist towards Asians and protects foreign terrorists…what a disgrace. Almost as much as CBS is which is now acting like a CCP owned propaganda station.

23. Until someone persuades the conservative judges on the Supreme Court to change their minds, nothing will happen to stop the Trump regime……

24. Gosh darn, of all the nerve. Cut off funding willy-nilly to academe on charges of antisemitism? Heckfire, I can take a little hootie-tutti criticism on Jews, but for God's sake–don't take our money. Sheese, why would anyone want to take our money?

25. How do you sue a US president?

26. Dr. Pinker's books, talks, and interviews have been tremendously influential in my intellectual development. It's great to see him on major media. I wish it was under better circumstances.

27. That guy doesn't seem trust worthy with those creepy eyes

28. Harvard had no option but to oppose the imbeciles who want to take away Academic Freedom. Harvard's greatest failure has been accepting some imbeciles who cannot understand that without academic freedom, and without important research projects, the biggest loser will be the United States.

29. Many of the people who are for government telling Harvard which Professors to hire and what Classes to teach, are the very same people who would have never been admitted to Harvard.

30. This guy looks extra to me just by first impressions. He came up with a theory of language? Is that really a thing? Theory of liberal arts lol.

31. I was required to read The Diary of Anne Frank by middle school, but I didn’t hear the word Nakba one time and was never taught any history of the modern Middle East in 18 years of US public schooling, including getting a university degree in religion, until looking it up myself after Oct 7th.

    Fool me once, shame on you…
    I know who the liars are.

32. Thank God Harvard has challenged this American fascism in court! Columbia should be deeply ashamed of itself, as should everyone who capitulates to this insane regime!

33. When you pair yourself with radical ideologues, and then cry foul when your funding is cut, it's your own fault. If we rebuild the universities with a right wing ideology and restore funding, will his opinion suddenly change?

34. Ge, this Harvard academic is anti=Trump. News flash! Where was Pinker when Obam threaneted funding with his "Dear Colleague" letter?

35. $53bn endowment and $4.5bn in investment gains in 2024 on which Harvard pays almost no taxes. An operating budget largely devoted to inflated salaries to people like Pinker who contribute nothing to society from their ivory towers. Admissions discrimination against Asians and Jews sanctioned by the Supreme Court that Harvard has done nothing to correct. Rampant anti-Semitism among faculty and students and slavish devotion to racist DEI policies at every level of the university. There are far less corrupt institutions that are better deserving of taxpayer subsidy. They can have their academic freedom, but Harvard now needs to sink or swim on its own.

36. So, what are we going to do about it?

37. He never really said which law Trump is breaking… did he

38. What a see word she is.

39. This guy is a clown….lol….seriously….

40. What is wrong with someone like this..he loks like a brainwashed robot….

41. Interesting that he mentioned only scientific research as a reason for continuation of funding. He avoided mentioning anything about contribution of the humanities students to the society.

42. The Trump administration has also cut or frozen funding to research. Broad research areas subject to funding reductions have included climate change, vaccines, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. Additionally, funding has been cut for research relating to LGBTQ topics; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); race and ethnicity, and other topics that the Trump administration has considered "woke". Some of the funding freezes have been used to apply pressure to universities on non-science related matters.The Trump administration's DEI policy has also led to government organizations removing or modifying more than 8,000 webpages and around 3,000 datasets. The policy also resulted in the removal of around 400 books from the U.S. Naval Academy library, including Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) and Janet Jacobs's Memorializing the Holocaust (2010), while The Bell Curve (1994) and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf were retained. Scientists have largely seen the funding cuts as, alongside Trump's efforts to include university education, dangerous to the state of research in the United States, and many scientists have said they were considering leaving the United States as a result of the policy.

43. Pinker is the worst person to get to talk about this issue.

44. How can Harvard survive? They only have 50 Billion in endowment. Hey, if you don't want political interference: don't take State funding. Self-finance. Be your own paymaster. It's not rocket science, Harvard: but considering how many of your profs are accused and convicted of plagiarism, maybe it is for you!

45. To all professors at Havard and Ivy League., what is national debt? How it happened to our country ? Any idea about government corruptions? Did you teach your students political 101 ? and all of you guys still want the money from taxpayers to support your school? Please tell American the truth so they will open their ears to your lectures.

46. Harvard has been draining millions from the US Government for decades. Its about time for it to stop, and that goes for all schools. Trump is just asking Harvard to stop teaching students to hate the USA. Pinker and others of Harvard are involved in defamation of character through false accusation in regards to President Trump.

47. We love DOGE. Go Trump!

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