Everything has to be about dt. He really is like a 3-yr-old, only much more destructive and dangerous in his position.

I still don't get how so many people could be so blind or non-caring as to what is happening right in front of their eyes. How can guys like TW have such a distaste for government, universities or science to such a degree that they just want to throw it all away?? Maybe 'cancel culture' has something to do with it? Maybe they just want to retaliate or create their own 'ideal' culture that they want to force on society and cancel the culture(s) they don't like or agree with? It still makes no sense to get behind someone like trump as their 'ideal' cult/ural leader.

I agree with this guy, a post Harvard professor, who said, ‘None of This is Good for the Jews’... or anyone else for that matter.

This part bears repeating....

"Pinker offers a scathing conclusion on the topic, writing, “The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: ‘The Universities Are the Enemy.’”


Renowned Harvard Professor Steven Pinker took President Donald Trump to task in a scathing essay in the New York Times over the president’s ongoing attacks on Harvard University, including his recent move to ban all foreign students from the school.

Pinker, a famed psycholinguist and public intellectual, begins his lengthy essay by noting that he’s “not been afraid to bite the hand that feeds” and lists his long history of criticizing Harvard as an institution.

“My 2023 ‘five-point plan to save Harvard from itself’ urged the university to commit itself to free speech, institutional neutrality, nonviolence, viewpoint diversity and disempowering D.E.I. Last fall, on the anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, I explained ‘how I wish Harvard taught students to talk about Israel,’ calling on the university to teach our students to grapple with moral and historical complexity,” noted Pinker over the weekend as he made clear he was early to calling for an end to DEI and has never pulled punches in offering his take on how the school is run.

He goes on to argue that in recent months, Trump has engaged in “unhinged” attacks on Harvard and tries to flip to script on so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome” – hence the title of his essay: “Harvard Derangement Syndrome.”

Pinker makes clear that he believes some of the criticism toward Harvard over the years has been “earned.” He shows no patience for “cancel culture” and lists off some instances in which he believes Harvard acted wrongly.

He goes on to tear into the Trump administration for cutting billions in funding to the school, including gutting its research. He accuses Trump’s policies of hurting Jewish Americans while claiming to help fight anti-Semitism.

“Mr. Trump’s strangling of this support will harm Jews more than any president in my lifetime,” Pinker writes of Trump cutting off funds, adding:

Many practicing and aspiring scientists are Jewish, and his funding embargo has them watching in horror as they are laid off, their labs are shut down or their dreams of a career in science go up in smoke. This is immensely more harmful than walking past a “Globalize the Intifada” sign.

Worse still is the effect on the far larger number of gentiles in science, who are being told that their labs and careers are being snuffed out to advance Jewish interests. Likewise for the current patients whose experimental treatments will be halted, and the future patients who may be deprived of cures. None of this is good for the Jews.

Pinker offers a scathing conclusion on the topic, writing, “The concern for Jews is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions that serve as loci of influence outside the executive branch. As JD Vance put it in the title of a 2021 speech: ‘The Universities Are the Enemy.’”

Pinker concludes by offering his reader a robust argument for why government should support public research – historically the key driver of innovation in the U.S.

“And if you’re still skeptical that universities are worth supporting, consider these questions: Do you think that the number of children who die every year from cancer is just about right? Are you content with your current chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease? Do you feel our current understanding of which government policies are effective and which ones are wasteful is perfect? Are you happy with the way the climate is going, given our current energy technology?” he writes, trying to personalize some of the areas of study that Trump has cut.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harvard-professor-slams-trump-s-crackdown-in-scathing-nyt-op-ed-none-of-this-is-good-for-the-jews/ar-AA1FBah0?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=eed713f3fc804400aed24fc7aa78f917&ei=14