How to fix Harvard

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Published 2024-03-28

"A lot of the problems that universities have faced come from the fact that deans, provosts, and presidents just want to make trouble go away. And so if someone is yelling at them and making their life miserable, they'll do whatever it takes to get them to shut up," argues Steven Pinker.

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All Comments (19)

@Vlabar 28 days ago

Why bother fixing Harvard.
@BushyHairedStranger 28 days ago

I’d like to go TP Harvard with Nick while high on Acid, prolly be a real kick
@AlgoNudger 28 days ago

NEVER
@catorials444 28 days ago

Does it help that most supreme court judges come from harvard or Yale?
@jakebredthauer5100 28 days ago

I saw this "new" video yesterday
@emanueledionisi9359 28 days ago

"emh students have ideas that are not accepted by a certain political party, bad, we need to improve"
@captain_context9991 21 days ago

Intelligentsia... Intellectual discourse in the US, is virtually dead. Cant be done anymore. Except by people who are experts at balancing the thin line. While lunatics are screaming and throwing things at them from all sides.
@jamesdellaneve9005 28 days ago

I love Stephen, however, he’s not the guy to suggest changes. He’s never run anything and is an intellectual fellow traveler. Listen to Eric Weinstein on his ideas. It’ll take a hard ass to change the institution. First, identify its areas of excellence. Protect that. Find its cancer (social sciences, or any other soft area). Starting defunding and firing. Start hiring conservative professors. Don’t lower standards, but be pro-active. Give the new leader 10 years fixed contract.
@YouilAushana 28 days ago

Everyone needs their butt kissed
@markblack5460 28 days ago

Harvard would best serve the American people as a strip mall or a parking lot.😊
@irishman1600 28 days ago

Shut it down?
@dougontheotherchannel3078 28 days ago

How to fix? Has anyone tried 5 gallons and a match?
@jamespier7801 28 days ago

😂
@mandyogilvie686 21 days ago

192 like
@NineInchTyrone 21 days ago

DEFUND HARVARD. 😂
@joshuamorrison5233 28 days ago

Institutional neutrality is impossible. You can't be neutral on a moving train. University of Chicago can claim ignorance of this all it wants, but societies look to their leading institutions for guidance, whether they admit it or not. I respect Pinker but must disagree on this point. It's true that certain people will be upset that a statement is not "just right" like Goldilocks would want. But the institutions are actors in society. They have to act like them.
@gagestandingready1472 28 days ago

Everything changes when Isreal is involved. Then, and only then, the rules change.
@chrischeehan2423 28 days ago

I think when a person makes a decision to have long hair, but can't see the optics of their own poor self care, they shouldn't really have any weight placed on their opinion.