the atlantic coddling of the american mind

‘I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,’ the headline said. In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politics of sexual paranoia-and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law-or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in ‘that violates the law’) lest it cause students distress. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. The Atlantic: “The Coddling of the American Mind” - “Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. Published by Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt 2018.

Co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind.” The Reading ListĮxcerpted from THE CODDLING OF THE AMERICAN MIND by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. Co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Haidt, social psychologist, professor of ethical leadership, New York University’s Stern School of Business. Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that advocates for free speech on campus. Are so-called “trigger warnings” and intellectual “safe spaces” creating a generation of students who can’t cope? Authors of a new book say “yes.” Political correctness on college campuses.

The atlantic coddling of the american mind