…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,…
…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….
…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…
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…
…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…
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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…