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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Paperback – 6 Jun. 2019

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Excellent . . . their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it -- Edward Luce ― Financial Times

An important if disturbing book . . . Lukianoff and Haidt tell a plausible story -- Niall Ferguson ―
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A compelling and timely argument against attitudes and practises that, however well-intended, are damaging our universities, harming our children and leaving an entire generation intellectually and emotionally ill-prepared for an ever-more fraught and complex world.
A brave and necessary work. -- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

No one is omniscient or infallible, so a willingness to evaluate new ideas is vital to understanding our world. Yet universities, which ought to be forums for open debate, are developing a reputation for dogmatism and intolerance.
Haidt and Lukianoff, distinguished advocates of freedom of expression, offer a deep analysis of what's going wrong on campus, and how we can hold universities to their highest ideals. -- Steven Pinker

Our behavior in society is not immune to the power of rational scientific analysis. Through that lens, prepare yourself for a candid look at the softening of America, and what we can do about it. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

We can talk ourselves into believing that some kinds of speech will shatter us, or we can talk ourselves out of that belief. The authors know the science. We are not as fragile as our self-appointed protectors suppose.
Read this deeply informed book to become a more resilient soul in a more resilient democracy. -- Philip E. Tetlock

About the Author

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Righteous Mind and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind.

Greg Lukianoff is a lawyer, First Amendment expert and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind and the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom From Speech.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (6 Jun. 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141986301
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141986302
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2024
Interesting analysis of how well intended policies can have unanticipated side-effects, particularly when raising children to be independent, antifragile, first-principle thinkers. Superbly researched and clearly explained, well worth a read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 July 2019
When I went to University in Britain in my thirties, I looked forward to sitting at the feet of the intellectually gifted and thoughtful, engaging in discussion where varying viewpoints were defended or discarded and reading widely. in this book that makes for profoundly distressing reading, an arrogant, monstrous, unchallenged and self-righteous cadre of teenagers have been allowed to run riot on American campuses, causing mayhem at events, getting staff sacked and raising issues where none exist, all in the name of political correctness, an obsession with the 'rights' of minorities to the exclusion of all others and a scale of intolerance that puts Mao's Red Guard in the shade. Shamefully, academe in America has capitulated to this nonsense allowing ill-formed, barely educated young people to disrupt learning, stifle debate and indulge in verbal and physical violence that might have been learnt in the re-education camps of pre-modern China. Haidt, unfortunately, is an honest if benign observer / commentator looking at solutions and offering explanations which while plausible and perceptive do nothing to stop this madness in its tracks. He is unreasonably optimistic in his conclusions. Revisiting parenting of Generation Snowflake etc might be a long term solution and even schooling for intellectual humility might help but at present a troubled and destructive group of teenagers are on the rampage and instead of 'confronting and sending down' the troublemakers, long time gifted academics are resigning, their careers ruined. A good book, who knows, perhaps Haidt is simply cataloguing the existential hell that is modern American life.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 March 2020
I’m not sure if I’m getting old but as someone who sometimes supports students, I seem to have noticed that many seem to be a little bit less resilient and more fragile than perhaps I was in my day. I have recently changed my style so that I can offer students the options of answering a question when I ask it or going away and thinking about it and then replying to me. Personally I find this a hopeless way of learning as I can’t really find out what student already knows and am able to give them an answer and help them think things through. Along with the fact that almost anything Jonathan Haidt writes is almost always an amazing book and certainly ‘the happiness hypothesis’ and ‘the righteous mind’ have been two of my favourite books of the last decade, and that is why I chose this book. It’s a much narrower subject but I also thought it would have a lot to offer and it certainly does. The book begins with dismantling several untruths such as what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker, always trust your feelings and people can be divided into good people and bad people. I believe all the three statements are nonsense to me but I do see others taking them on board to be true. However, we know that bones will break if we don’t put pressure on them and become stronger when we do, babies are stronger to the pressure delivered by natural birth rather than Caesarean and babies who are born in a germ free environment are much weaker than those exposed to germs. So the main message in this book is that we need to accept some pressure and stress to help make us more functional and stronger human beings in both college and the work place. Perhaps his book is not as strong as the other two Haidt books I have read but it certainly gives me plenty of food for thought. I personally found the chapter on what Internet he is doing to us on our phones alongside social media fascinating and thought-provoking. And I loved the last bit of how to do CBT which I’m going to employ and trial on one of my colleagues to see if it will help with their anxiety. There is a summary of what to do at the end, it might be of benefit. This is a fascinating book and well worth reading alongside Alex Beard’s ‘natural born learners’ which I read at the same time.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2024
Seems our parents and previous generations had it right all along we are going down a wobbly path, this book has great examples and well written.
Very enjoyable read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2024
The authors try very hard to make their book politically balanced, but this is a big stretch. Every time I see someone fired or subjected to public shaming for what they said, I put a cross on the political spectrum - there are way more crosses on one side than the other. The authors argue that the Right 'provoke' the Left on college campuses by the speakers they invite. This is hardly the same as shutting down all opinions you don't agree with. Centres of monolithic Leftist groupthink are the bigger problem.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2018
Being a fan of Jon Haidt I very much enjoyed this book. Both authors explain the trends we've been seeing in both universities and society clearly and concisely. Being a psychotherapist who works at a university and having first hand experience with these issues, this book is a great help in my understanding. I've been observing for a while that the thinking patterns of (some) of the very far left (and also young people) are replicating all the very unhealthy cognitive distortions, which we often try and undo in the therapeutic setting in order to help people have happier and functional lives. It filled me with both relief and sadness to have my thoughts on this confirmed. Clearly the authors have explained all this in a way I never could, so for me it's an excellent book and I would recommend this everyone whether you work with young people or not.
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Kathleen Hambley
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this!
Reviewed in Canada on 4 April 2024
Excellent and informative.
Eduardo Martins Morgado
5.0 out of 5 stars Conteudo e sutora
Reviewed in Brazil on 21 August 2023
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Narciso González
5.0 out of 5 stars Por fin algo muy bueno que leer para corregir nuestra sociedad
Reviewed in Mexico on 2 July 2022
Nuestra sociedad necesita un reset y corregir el muy torcido rumbo al que se dirige, los autores hacen de este lo que debe ser libro de texto en todas las escuelas.
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Christian Nugue
5.0 out of 5 stars Ne me fais pas peur
Reviewed in France on 16 March 2024
Ce livre-phare explique bien la naissance aux USA, vers le tournant du siècle, d'une génération dorlotée, hyperprotégée, qui redoute le contact non pas avec le danger, mais avec la POSSIBILITE d'un danger. D'où, dans le monde universitaire contemporain, des dizaines d'intervenants désinvités en catastrophe parce que leurs prises de position risqueraient de heurter la sensibilité de certains étudiants. C'est ainsi par exemple que la théorie de l'évolution, qui s'appuie pourtant sur des bases scientifiques solides, a été évacuée de nombreux campus de la planète. Proprement ahurissant. Merci aux auteurs pour leurs explications éclairantes.
Roger
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth often hurts.
Reviewed in Germany on 18 October 2021
But it pays in the end. This seems to me to be the battle Jonathan Haidt is engaged in. He presents convincing arguments about the United States, and how from parenting to college campuses, the pursuit of hearing what makes us feel good can come at the cost of what is true, and that this cost may reveal itself in the future to be way more than we are willing to pay.