Harvard professor Steven Pinker unpacks stakes of Trump legal battle
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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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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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Richard Hanania and I discuss the battle between Trump and Harvard. Me: Yeah, and I think the least bad outcome is that there is some kind of face-saving compromise — you know, unjust and deplorable, but better than shutting down a massive research enterprise that benefits all of humanity. Yeah. So I think we could live with a fine and various other conditions. I liken it to, you know, if a mugger in an alley is pointing a gun at you, there is some wisdom in not being a hero and handing over you
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