To the Slaughterhouse with You
…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…
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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
…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…
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…
Punishing College Sports Teams
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…
Why Millennials Are So Fragile
…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,…
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….
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…