The release date for the English version of 'The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure' by
Jonathan Haidt is Sep 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An analysis of the attack on free speech on campus and its implications for students, education, and democracy in the modern day.
Three Great Lies have been instilled in the generation that is about to enter adulthood: they should constantly follow their emotions, they should try to avoid suffering, and they should focus on other people's shortcomings rather than their own. These three Great Myths are a part of a wider ideology that views children as delicate beings in need of adult supervision and protection. The Great Untruths, however, are damaging children because they teach them the opposite of both traditional knowledge and contemporary psychology research on resilience, development, and antifragility—despite the well-meaning intentions of the adults who spread them. As a consequence, there are increasing numbers of people experiencing anxiety and sadness, and there are many accounts of moralistic arguments and accusations tearing apart college campuses.
This book describes our journey to this point. In a period of growing political polarisation, First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt take us on a tour of the social trends dating back to the 1980s that have resulted in the confusion and conflict on campuses today. These trends include the loss of unsupervised play time and the emergence of social media.
This book explains how to clean up after a spill. Many young people are anxious and unprepared for adult life as a result of the culture of "safety" and its intolerance of opposing viewpoints. This has disastrous effects on them, their parents, the businesses that will soon hire them, and a democracy that is already on the verge of violence due to its widening political divisions. A complete set of changes proposed by Lukianoff and Haidt would fortify youth and institutions and enable all of us to benefit from variety, including the diversity of perspectives.
This is a book for everyone who has kids, is perplexed by what's going on in college campuses these days, or is worried about how difficult it is becoming for Americans to get along with each other and work across political divides.