Christian Higher Education Is Gen Z’s Salvation
…to DEI’—Baylor Twists Scripture to Justify Slavery Memorial] In his book The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt argues that the diminished hours of free play during the formative years of childhood…
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The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness on Campus
…Jonathan Haidt, Douglas Murray, and Heather Mac Donald to deliver on-campus talks. The Virginia Military Institute alumni group, The Cadet Foundation, is the publisher of the independent student newspaper, The…
Let’s Get SCiLL’s Origins Right, Like It or Not
…bitterly divided nation. As renowned social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Righteous Mind,” said of SCiLL during a talk this year at Carolina: “Boy, does America need that.” Boy,…
A Thanksgiving Guide for Crazy Uncles
…Jonathan Haidt described Patterson’s arrest as a national wake-up call: “One lesson should be: parents, go as a group to your local police department and ask them to work with…
Safetyism and the Tentifada: Modern Campus Protests Undermine Intellectual Rigor and Erode Higher Education
…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…
Social Dualism and the Problem of Archaic Inequality—Part I
…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…
Blame Woke Mind Virus, Not Coronavirus, for Young Americans’ Mental Health Crisis
…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…
We Keep Us Grammatical
…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…
Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
…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…
The Baffling ‘Bull’ Behind Title IX
…as such, can distort perception, experience, memory, and testimony. Jonathan Haidt in his recent book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental…
I Was Canceled
…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…
The Dead-End Gospel of Viewpoint Diversity
…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,…
Weird Is What We Need
…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…
Northwestern Cancels Former Trustee
…book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan…
Stoking the FIRE: Boston Event Demonstrates Foundation’s Expansion and Continuity
…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…
Ending Woke Culture Wars: Different Worldviews Require Different Institutions
…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…
On Leaving Professional Organizations
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…
Reimagining College: Three New Schools
…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…
Moving Forward: On Building New Institutions
…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…
The Catechism of the Woke: A Cautionary Tale
…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…
Inclusive Majorities in an Inclusive Nation: Managing Ethnic Diversity
…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…
Countering the Mob at SDSU
…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…
The Looming Danger for Dissident Professors
…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…
The Cult of Diversity Shows Its True Face
…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…
Are Colleges Turning Out Our Most Self-Absorbed and Fragile Generation?
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…
DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…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…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…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…
Here’s What Happens as Campuses Turn Further Left
A couple of years ago, six social scientists published a paper describing a disquieting occurrence in academic psychology: the loss of almost all its political diversity. As Jonathan Haidt of…
Four Lessons for Professors from Recent Campus Tumult
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,…
Angry Students Turn on Another Progressive Prof at Evergreen
…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…