Today’s guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason‘s Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning that threats to academic freedom now come from both internal ideologies and external political forces—including pressure from the federal government under President Donald Trump. Pinker defends the role of […]
You may find it hard to sympathize with Harvard, the nation’s oldest and richest university, especially when it is fighting to keep billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing into its coffers. But a federal lawsuit that Harvard filed on Monday plausibly claims that the Trump administration’s freeze on research funding to the university violates […]
Battle heats up:Â Earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has declared war on elite universities and threatened to pull their funding, “sent Harvard a list of demands that included auditing professors for plagiarism, reporting to the federal government any international students accused of misconduct, and appointing an outside overseer to make sure that academic departments […]
On Tuesday, Trump administration officials pulled over $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University after the university announced that it would not comply with a convoluted, contradictory list of demands from the government. “The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory […]