College Students Lose It over the Election
…higher education ideological monoculture (see Jonathan Haidt’s Minding the Campus interview) as well as survey results showing that about 25% of millennials reject democracy as a form of government. U.S….
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College Faculties, Heavily Tilted Toward the Left, Shun Diverse Viewpoints
…authors, however, think otherwise, writing, “Works like Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (2012) and Christian Smith’s The Sacred Project of American Sociology (2014) represent a trend toward recognizing that scholarly…
Universities Torn Between Truth Seeking and Social Justice
A lengthy article by Jonathan Haidt dealing with the growing conflict over the proper goal or end of the academy ran here in full on October 23. It was neither…
Killer Clowns on Campus? A Sign of Moral Panic
…provided by NYU Social Psychology Professor Jonathan Haidt in an interview here. Haidt believes that college campuses have been places fraught with fear for students. Part of this is due…
Conservative vs. Liberal, Plato vs. Descartes
Conservatives are climbing aboard Jonathan Haidt’s “viewpoint diversity” train, pushing for more variety of opinions and attitudes on what many call our monocultural campuses. They are, of course, admirably trying…
Finally, One Major Campus Condemns Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces
…important initiative has appeared in this unlikely month of August: NYU professor Jonathan Haidt of Heterodox Academy has called on students to declare whether they are satisfied with what many…
Which Will Be America’s First Heterodox University?
Calling all college students: Do you love the intellectual climate on your campus? Or do you sometimes wish that a broader range of viewpoints was represented in the classroom, and…
Why Do Our High Schools Teach Grievance and Oppression?
…high school” (see Haidt’s The Yale Problem Begins in High School). While Haidt discusses experiences he had with faculty and students at elite schools, as an English teacher at a…
The New Age of Orthodoxy Overtakes the Campus
…joins a handful of others, including Kim Holmes’ The Closing of the Liberal Mind (2016), Michael Walsh’s The Devil’s Pleasure Palace (2015), and Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (2012), as…
BDS: Jew-Hating Propagandists on the March
…recordings of her talk from Vassar. Related: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt At nearly the same moment that the Fordham events were unfolding, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an…
Invited Racist Banned at Williams– Was That Right?
…consideration. It is a tool, as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt might put it, that helps a moral community police its boundaries. To label someone a purveyor of hate speech is…
Affirmative Action for Conservative Faculty?
…diversity on campuses, led by Jonathan Haidt of NYU’s Stern School of Business. The Academy is a self-described “mix of liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and centrists.” Haidt writes, “Scholars have been…
How the Leftist Monoculture Took Over the Campus
By Richard Vedder I didn’t sleep too well last night, thanks to Heterodox Academy’s (and NYU’s) Jonathan Haidt and John Leo, who recently carried on a provocative exchange in this…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…academe. JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. That’s correct. JOHN LEO: To many of us, it looks like a monoculture. JONATHAN HAIDT: Yes. It is certainly a monoculture. The academic world in the…
Social Psychology, a Field with Only 8 Conservatives
…on political issues: 314 to one. This excerpt from Heterodox Academy, “New Study Indicates Existence of Eight Conservative Social Psychologists” is printed with permission. Jonathan Haidt is a social…
Campus Turmoil Begins in High School
…people who don’t share their values. Especially when there are no adults around who don’t share their values. This article is reprinted with permission from Heterodox Academy. Jonathan Haidt is…
Heterodox Academy—A New Site
…Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt of NYU’S Stern School of Business, Wharton Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology Philip Tetlock, Sociologist Carlotta Stern of the University of Stockholm, and Daniel…
The Pressure of Group Thought
…out, we have moved into a period in which students themselves are attempting to silence dissenting opinions. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s thorough account in the Atlantic, “The Coddling of…
HISTORIANS TAKING POLITICAL STANDS
…— they are all too often seen, correctly, as high priests delivering The Word from what NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt has called “a ‘tribal-moral community’ united by sacred values’ that…
Why So Few Conservatives in Higher Ed?
…work of the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics. Haidt is no conservative; to the contrary, he an…
The Hunt for Conservative and Liberal Genes
…and thought they could gather some conservative support; the conservatives changed because their atavistic tribal loyalties inexorably lead them to say no whenever liberals say yes. Klein quotes Jonathan Haidt,…
A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
…recent years, Haidt wrote, missed the all-important binding and community-forming role that traditional religious belief and religious practice frequently perform. Haidt‘s earliest professional interest was in the psychology of moral…
Why the Times Article Hit Home
…asking for a show of hands among a thousand social psychologists at an academic convention, Jonathan Haidt, a non-conservative professor, had the academics demonstrate their political imbalance themselves (three hands…
Infidels in the Church of Diversity
…on the bias of social psychologists fit to print. Tierney reported on a dramatic presentation by Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia social psychologist, at a recent convention of social…