Greg Lukianoff on the Coddling of the American Mind
Mike talks with Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He's the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Freedom From Speech, and FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus. Most recently, he co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Jonathan Haidt.
Mike and Greg discuss
- the 3 Great Untruths of modern American society
- fragile kids
- tribalism and ‘us vs. them’ thinking
- white male privilege
- Stoicism, Buddhism, and modern psychology
- and lots more
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