Trump's Attack on Independent Thought | Robert Wright & Stephen Walt

YouTube:

0:00 The scope of Trump's assault on Harvard
7:53 What Trump demanded from Harvard
11:01 What makes certain universities vulnerable
15:11 Ideology and “viewpoint diversity” at Harvard
22:16 Trump’s attacks on media and cultural institutions
27:32 The costs of lost research
33:01 How woke was Harvard?
36:55 Antisemitism and philosemitism at Harvard
46:44 Steve's new FP piece on the importance of global rules (Heading to Overtime)

Discussed in Overtime:
Conflating Zionism and Judaism; Mearsheimer’s China hawkism; America’s reckless China policy, etc.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy). Recorded June 3, 2025.