Aside from baggage, the article strongly suggests that Pinker has no clue about how to do it. Not only does he not offer a solution, but he hasn't even diagnose

Aside from baggage, the article strongly suggests that Pinker has no clue about how to do it. Not only does he not offer a solution, but he hasn't even diagnosed the problem correctly. No Steven, your students are not signalling hostility to certain viewpoints because of 'Marxist critical theory and postmodernism'... even most politics students don't bother to read Adorno or Derrida and if they did they wouldn't find any suggestions to deplatform Charles Murray. And then he apparently suggests the discussion of these very marginal theories he dislikes within universities is also why some conservatives and libertarians don't find scientific consensus on global warming credible, as if the other side of the political spectrum had always trusted scientific theories whose implications conflicted with their core values until the woke left came along! Complaining that students are being 'indoctrinated' by ideas he thinks are bad doesn't half sound like the censorious elements he's complaining about as well... Edit: I do wish people who apparently disagree with my post would venture a defence of Pinker's "its the postmodernists" thesis. It's a marketplace of ideas...