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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
32:01 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)
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy). Recorded June 3, 2025.
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Discussed in Overtime:
Conflating Zionism and Judaism
Mearsheimer’s China hawkism
America’s reckless China policy
