Morning Prayers service with speaker Amina Salahou '25, Leverett House, April 25 2025. Transcript: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/2025-04/Amina%20Salahou%20%2725%20-%20April%2025%202025%20%20Morning%20Prayers.pdf

Amina Salahou '25 - April 25, 2025 | Morning Prayers

Morning Prayers service with speaker Max Semegran '25, Dunster House, April 28 2025. Transcript: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/2025-04/Max%20Semegran%20%2725%20-%20April%2028%202025%20%20Morning%20Prayers.pdf

Max Semegran '25 - April 28, 2025 | Morning Prayers

Morning Prayers service with speaker Anna Dean '25, Mather House, April 29 2025. Transcript: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/2025-04/Anna%20Dean%20%2725%20-%20April%2029%202025%20%20Morning%20Prayers.pdf

Anna Dean '25 - April 29, 2025 | Morning Prayers

The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts Ph.D. '13, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in the Faculty of Divinity, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sunday Sermon, April 27, 2025, in the Memorial Church of Harvard University. Transcript: Program: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/2025-04/042725_bulletin_Easter2.pdf

The Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts Ph.D. '13 - April 27, 2025 | Sunday Sermon

What’s Right: In a landmark move toward educational access, Harvard University has announced it will offer free tuition to families earning under $200,000 per year

What’s Right: Harvard Makes Tuition Free for Most U.S. Families

Morning Prayers service with speaker Ari Cheriyan '25, Senior and University Choir Secretary, April 30 2025. Transcript: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/news/2025/04/morning-prayers-senior-talks-2025

Ari Cheriyan '25 - April 30, 2025 | Morning Prayers

The true benefits of an MBA go well beyond higher salaries and better jobs.

The Real ROI On The MBA Degree

U.S. to pay $1,000 to migrants who self-deport, Trump administration cuts off new federal grants to Harvard, and the Real ID deadline is just around the corner.


This Morning with Gordon Deal May 06, 2025

Today's guest is Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. Pinker and Reason's Nick Gillespie discuss recent shifts at Harvard toward greater institutional neutrality and free speech, while warning that threats to academic freedom now come from both internal ideologies and external political forces—including pressure from the federal government under President Donald Trump.

Pinker defends the role of federal science funding but cautions against political micromanagement of academia, emphasizing the need for independent scholarly governance. The conversation also touches on Pinker's admiration for Richard Dawkins, the impact of declining religiosity on moral progress, and the concept of "common knowledge" as explored in Pinker's forthcoming book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. 

0:00— Introduction

1:27— The state of Harvard

4:42— Harvard is circumventing SCOTUS affirmative action ruling

6:02— How to foster true ideological diversity

7:25— Why does Harvard rank so highly?

10:16— Threats to academic freedom under Trump

18:58— Do universities really need federal funding?

23:14— History of government interference in higher education

27:20— Is the Trump administration uniquely anti-intellectual?

30:47— Is academia historically unpopular now?

36:55— How universities can regain trust

40:25— Richard Dawkins' influence on Pinker

49:51— Societal progress was propelled by secularism

52:50— Why are public intellectuals pushing for religious revival?

54:23— Pinker's new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows


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The Rev. Dr. Calvon Jones, Assistant Minister in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, Sunday sermon May 4, 2025, for the Memorial of Harvard University. Transcript: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/childrens-sunday Program: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum7126/files/2025-05/050425_bulletin_Easter3_communion.pdf

The Rev. Dr. Calvon Jones - May 4, 2025 | Sunday Sermon

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