Breaking news -- this guy is a leftist -- I know that wil come as a shock to the readers on this forum.
But, more to the point, why does the worlds' greatest university need a council on academic freedom? It's because academic freedom is dead at the world's greatest university, suggesting perhaps that, well, you can draw your own conclusions.
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard … Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1954, to a middle-class secular Jewish family in an English-speaking community.