A clever title to serve as a starting point for an insightful post, but he's not actually disagreeing with what Pinker wrote, and he did not actually change his

A clever title to serve as a starting point for an insightful post, but he's not actually disagreeing with what Pinker wrote, and he did not actually change his opinion that much recently. The conclusion is as I understand it is that he feels academics should be free to have political opinions and it's good to be involved in trying to affect change, but they should not be expected to have public opinions on every hot topic and especially align them with those of the government, mass media or various think tanks.