The authors start with three key fallacies: You can trust your feelings there are good and bad people adversity will weaken you. And they produced “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” They wrote the book in response to their 2015 Atlantic magazine article, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” which is one of the top five most viewed articles on the magazine’s website. They looked at new research and existing data. They consulted authors of recent books that explored facets of the problem. Their work in First Amendment protections and social psychology, respectively, gave them the interest, tools and experience needed to investigate further. They questioned why this sudden intolerance and why now.
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt noticed an extreme uptick in the misapprehension of dangers on campus in the last few years. Whatever’s happening to our youth at this moment in time needs to be understood and addressed. The sharp increase in student sensitivity to perceived danger, the increasingly tribal us-vs.-them mentality, the intolerance of words and ideas, the tendency to catastrophize and the rapid rise in anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide attempts are problems for colleges and problems for the rest of us.
What happens on campus does not stay on campus. “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
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