Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part four: To the surprise of no one . . . In “ The Coddling of the American Mind ” (COTAM), Jonathan Haidt and I tried to get to the bottom of what was so different about the class entering college around 2013-14 Why was there a return to demands for speech restrictions, this time from students? Why were the rationales for censorship increasingly expressed in medicalized language?
Catching up with ‘Coddling’ part six: U. S. income stratification: a . . . In “ The Coddling of the American Mind,” Jonathan Haidt and I identified a total of six causal threads that helped explain why Gen Z (roughly the generation born from 1996 to 2015) is so different from prior generations in terms of everything from higher rates of anxiety and depression, to attitudes about freedom of speech One of those causal threads was “paranoid parenting,” which
So to Speak podcast: ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ Tribalism and group polarization are on the rise So too are rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide On campuses, professors and students are afraid to speak out And on social media, outrage mobs rule the day
Available Today: ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ by Greg Lukianoff . . . The wait is over — “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” is now available wherever books are sold Co-authored by FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt, the book is a timely investigation into the new “safety culture” on campus and the dangers it poses to free
A member of the Japan Self-Defense Forces was arrested for . . . - ResetEra At around 9 a m on the 24th, a man forced his way into the building of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, located in Minato City, Tokyo Embassy staff subdued the man, and the Japanese Police Department arrested him on suspicion of unlawful entry into a building According to the Police Department, the man is Third Lieutenant 村田晃大 (23) A knife believed to have been carried by the suspect
President Obama Echoes FIRE: College Students Shouldn’t Be ‘Coddled and . . . To support his position, Obama echoed the concerns presented by FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt in their September cover story for The Atlantic, “ The Coddling of the American Mind ”