Requiring scholars and commencement speakers, for that matter因此 要求学者和毕业典礼发言者to conform to certain political standards遵循特定政治标准undermines the whole purpose of a university会侵蚀整个大学的存在意义This spring今年春it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw很让人不安的是 很多大学毕业典礼演讲者都被撤销了o

And it is that union of values that the正是这两大价值的结合terrorists who attacked us on September 11th, 2001让2001年9月11日及2013年4月15日and on April 15th, 2013 found most threatening袭击我们的恐怖分子感到恐惧To them, we were a God-less country在他们看来 我们是一个不信神的国家But in fact, there is no country但事实上 没有任何国家that protects the core of

I&#39m sure all of today&#39s graduates have read我敢肯定 今天毕业的学生肯定都读过John Stuart Mill&#39s On Liberty约翰.斯图尔特.密尔的《论自由》But just let me read a short passage from it请允许我将其中的一小段读给大家听&quotThe peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is&quot强迫别人不能发表意见的邪恶&quotthat it is robbing the human race&qu

In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees2年总统选举中 根据联邦选举委员会数据 常春藤盟校教职员工有96%的捐赠went to Barack Obama都给了巴拉克·奥巴马Ninety-six percent There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo96

Thank you, Katie感谢凯蒂and thank you to President Faust, the Fellows of Harvard College, the Board of Overseers感谢佛斯特校长 哈佛大学部成员 监事会and all the faculty, alumni, and students who have welcomed me back to campus还有迎接我回校园的所有教职员工 校友和学生I&#39m excited to be here能来到这里我很激动not only to address the distinguished gra

He was attempting to repress and criminalize他试图压制和定罪those who sympathized with an economic system that was, even then, failing那些赞同哪怕在当时都已经很失败的经济体制的人McCarthy&#39s Red Scare destroyed thousands of lives麦卡锡的红色恐惧让数以千计的人失去了生命but what was he so afraid of?他害怕的是什么呢An idea in this case, communism是一种思想 也就是共产主

Joined together两者结合在一起they form a sacred trust that holds the basis of our democratic society构成了维持民主社会根基的神圣信赖But let me tell you that trust is perpetually vulnerable但我要告诉大家 这种信赖是很脆弱的to the tyrannical tendencies of monarchs, mobs, and majorities特别是在君主 暴民 多数的专横倾向下And lately, we have seen those tendenc

My personal connection to Harvard began back in 1964我个人同哈佛的联系始于1964年when I graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore我从约翰霍普金斯大学毕业and matriculated here at the B-School被录取到这里的商学院You&#39re probably asking yourself or maybe whispering to the person next to you你们或许在想 或是正在同旁边的人窃窃私语说How did he ever get into

Let&#39s get serious让我们严肃一些When 86 Americans are killed with guns every single day每天都有86位美国人死于枪杀and shootings regularly occur at our schools and universities枪击事件也经常发生在校园中including last week&#39s tragedy at Santa Barbara包括上周发生在圣巴巴拉的悲剧it would be almost medical malpractice to say anything else但除此之外 再说

As a former chairman of Johns Hopkins作为约翰霍普金斯大学前任主席I strongly believe that a university&#39s obligation我坚信一所大学的职责is not to teach students what to think but to teach students how to think并不是教学生思考什么 而是教学生如何思考And that requires listening to the other side这就需要倾听不同意见weighing arguments without prejudging t

Now, don&#39t get me wrong: scientific skepticism is healthy别误解我的意思 科学怀疑主义是有好处的But there is a world of difference between scientific skepticism that seeks out more但是寻找更多证据的科学怀疑主义同意识形态上evidence and ideological stubbornness that shuts it out拒绝科学证据的顽固不化是有本质差别的Given the general attitude of many elected