Is This the Death of Harvard? - Steven Pinker

Jul 24, 2024
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and Harvard College Professor. 💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥
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/

00:00 Trailer
00:39 Is language being warped?
02:36 We’re wired for nostalgia
04:09 Youth pessimism
07:37 Is there a meaning crisis?
10:00 The religion of Wokeness
13:42 We take our wins for granted
17:07 Is the West worth preserving?
24:11 SPONSOR: Qualia Senolytic
25:59 Enlightenment values in decline at universities
31:54 Academics are more concerned with status than doing their jobs
34:02 Is the academy in crisis?
35:45 Universities need to be reformed
38:48 New wave of students pushing back against woke
43:53 The DEI virus
45:28 Cowardly leaders
46:38 Why Jordan Peterson is wrong
50:02 Constructing a secular moral framework
53:02 The decline in child-bearing
57:53 What’s the one thing we’re not talking about?

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