Pinker said he feels there's "a grain of truth" in what the president has said, and that there should be more voices on the right at Harvard, but Pinker said he doesn't want Mr. Trump to have a say in who those people are or how many there should be. "My knees buckled, and I had to sit down, because I just never imagined that research focused on a disease like cancer would be canceled for a reason that was unrelated to the quality of the research or the progress of the research," she said. Harvard and the federal government have been in settlement talks for months and in a statement, the Department of Education said the Trump administration is "actively working toward a deal with Harvard that holds them accountable for egregious civil rights violations and discrimination on campus while restoring generous taxpayer dollar support to the institution."
Author: Bill Whitaker, Aliza Chasan, Sarah Koch
Published at: 2025-11-10 00:00:00
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