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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) seeks to go behind the scandalized reporting and to establish what’s really happening on US college campuses. Drawing on psychological theory and wide-ranging research, The Coddling of the American Mind demonstrates that university life has taken a worrying turn.
About the author
Greg Lukianoff is the CEO and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a free-speech advocacy group focusing on college campuses. He is the author of Freedom From Speech and Unlearning Liberty.
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has also written The Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis.
Who might enjoy this content?
- Baffled readers trying to understand campus politics
- Parents of college-aged kids
- Citizens concerned about accelerating political polarization
