…Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff diagnose the cause of the dramatic movement of universities from defenders of liberal ideals upholding the pursuit of truth to pious enforcers of illiberalism. The…
…rings of cleared ground. An uncomfortable natural law animates these structures. When humans settle into moieties, we oppose disjointed ways of looking at a world we inhabit together. Haidt says…
…Hans Kelsen in On the Essence and Value of Democracy (1920) noted that once an issue becomes important enough, even the most intricate European parliament manifests two coalitions. Jonathan Haidt…
…in American culture that it isn’t even recognized as unusual. In their 2018 bestselling book The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt studies the mental health…
…and all over the country. At some level, it’s not a bad turn of phrase. It’s true that “safetyism”—a word coined by Pamela Paresky that Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff…
…slope between the idea of service to the public and the preaching of one’s partisan political views. As Jonathan Haidt showed years ago in The Righteous Mind, individuals on the…
…portion of the 1964 CRA is Title VII, which prohibits hostile environment discrimination. Title IX exemplifies what Lukianoff and Haidt (2018) argue are good intentions and bad ideas creating calamitous…
…book, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. The effect of this phenomenon is an incomplete education for our young people who attend college that…
…Jonathan Haidt—the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business—saw that the American university was also in need of saving. He worried that draconian speech restrictions,…
…hundreds of business, tech, political, creative, and academic leaders, who are enthusiastic about mentoring, offering internships and apprenticeships.” Jonathan Haidt, known for his assertion that Gen Z faces challenges stemming…
…Haidt, examines the origins and evils of “Safetyism” on college campuses. My Story I was honored and delighted to be recruited to the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University in…
…to his best-selling 2018 book, The Coddling of the American Mind, co-authored with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, Lukianoff stressed that the newer study does not ascribe good intentions to his…
…out resembling the Belgian solution has been advocated by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. In “Why Universities Must Choose One: Truth or Social Justice,” Haidt suggested that the incompatibility between the…
…really don’t know what “actions” make them feel “unsafe.” This is characteristic of “safety rhetoric,” what Lukianoff and Haidt have called campus “safetyism.” The “Safe Space” Marker of Paranoid Ideology…
Jonathan Haidt, professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, just published a deeply moving piece about why he is resigning from his primary professional society, the Society for Personality and…
…of a new University of Austin, with the prospects of good private funding and the support of some major names in academia, the likes of Jonathan Haidt; Deidre McCloskey; Ayaan…
…to ruin. To start, let’s take a look at some of UATX’s trustees, advisors, and faculty fellows: Niall Ferguson, Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jonathan Haidt, and Richard Dawkins. All…
…for Failure (2018), Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt trace much of the current negative effects of this movement to several false beliefs drawn from neo-socialism. Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s…
…from what Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff term a ‘common humanity’ identity politics, where groups see their distinctiveness as not being in a zero-sum relationship to society, toward a ‘common…
…Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Gregg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, Penguin Books, 2019, pp. 146, 148 [NOTE: This article is the Executive Summary of a 21-page article, a…
…and “Community and Civility,” and my students even met with leading free speech advocates such as Jonathan Haidt. So it came as a total surprise when the president launched an…
…an anthropologist and social psychologist, not a political scientist. Jonathan Haidt, who founded Heterodox Academ, recognized this a few years ago, and he has nobly led the effort to reform…
Towards the end of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, the authors declare that it is “a good time for us to lay…
…principles on campus free expression. In perhaps the most intriguing portion of the address, DeVos proposed a test called “Haidt’s choice”—named for NYU’s Jonathan Haidt—contending that schools need to choose…
…head Jonathan Haidt observed at the end of the conference, “This is everybody’s issue now. It’s all professors’ issue. It’s all administrators’ issue. It’s all students’ issues.” Liberal faculty members…
…failed disastrously, what does this tell us about the liberal progress narrative—or as Haidt calls it, Universalism? What’s interesting about Haidt’s alternative interpretation of the liberal progress narrative is that…
1) Never object to a diversity policy publicly. It is no longer permitted. You may voice concerns in a private conversation, but if you do it in a public way,…
…have no basis on which to stand against an organized grievance group. Unable to oppose it, they either accede to it or adopt it as their own. Jonathan Haidt has…
NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues we are witnessing an internal war over what in fact is a university’s core sacred value: is it truth? Or social justice? If it…
…with the custom of a risk-averse regime of child-rearing. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has described this form of childrearing as that of “fearful parenting.” He claims that since the 1980s,…