Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:57 What is the Left?
0:02:05 Does Pinker identify with the Left?
0:03:12 When does the Left go too far?
0:05:40 How is the contemporary American Right even worse?
0:07:15 Does Pinker see the rise of the campus Left as becoming more extreme in the past few years?
0:08:31 Increase in social and residential segregation
0:09:52 Do universities follow a propaganda model?
0:10:41 Why are certain disciplines more ideological?
0:11:32 Does the Right pose a greater threat right now?
0:13:42 A market economy in reality vs. libertarian fantasy
0:15:13 How does the identity politics undermine Pinker’s categorization as in-group vs. out-group?
0:15:51 How the idea of a global civilization of transnational organizations is utopian.
0:17:17 Definition of the Enlightenment and its values
0:18:49 What is Pinker’s view of progress?
0:21:45 Does Pinker agree that technological progress is tied to ideological progress?
0:22:44 Does technological progress match to ideological progress in the West?
0:25:08 Is universal human rights a Western concept?
0:21:14 Is the genesis of the Enlightenment uniquely European phenomenon?
0:26:27 Do we run the risk of decaffeinating the Enlightenment into the core essence of human beings that seeks freedom?
0:27:25 Would Pinker attribute the polygenesis of the Enlightenment ideas as a reflection of our human nature?
0:29:36 Is it something that’s beyond humanism?
0:31:50 Are human beings players in the game where the rules are beyond them?
0:34:17 Is there another option to the Enlightenment values?
0:37:05 Pinker’s thoughts on Sam Harris’ “The Moral Landscape”
0:37:53 Is a view of progress compatible with Post-Modernism?
0:39:11 Are some cultures better than others?
0:40:27 The price that enlightened societies paid for their progress
0:43:02 Were those evils contributing factors for the success of enlightened societies?
0:44:43 Is Jordan Peterson causing harm to the Enlightenment project? Thoughts on Noam Chomsky
0:47:48 Thoughts on the redefinition of words
0:52:51 Has any organization ever imposed a certain word, which people had to use?

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