Is This the Death of Harvard - Steven Pinker

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: Check out more of Steven’s work: Sponsor: Qualia Senolytic. Go to for up to 50% off and use code TRIG at checkout for an additional 15% off. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@ | YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@ Join the Mailing List: #mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: 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. 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?