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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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“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

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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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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Trump's approach is qualitatively different than what we've seen bef…

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Richard Hanania and I discuss the battle between Trump and Harvard…

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With Biden’s debate stumble, we all saw the emperor’s new clothes va…

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Steven Pinker on free speech, Donald Trump and "the slide towa…

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Five months back, I told BBC Radio 4 (@BBCPM on X) why Harvard ha…

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Trump has ‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome,’ Harvard professor say…

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Trump's America is 'on the way to autocracy' | Professor Steven Pink…

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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

Steven Pinker: Campus culture wars and Trump threaten future of US d…

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Steven Pinker: How Donald Trump’s ‘gaslighting’ and ‘trolling’ is creati…

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Steven Pinker says Trump is 'clearly breaking the law' over foreign stu…

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Trump, Vaccines, and Inequality | Steven Pinker

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I spoke with Prof. Arora (@LaulPatricia) about how the pos…

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Harvard's Steven Pinker on Trump lawsuit, academic freedom and m…

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Steven Pinker on Harvard, Trump and Academic Freedom

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