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Greg Lukianoff is an American lawyer and free speech advocate, serving as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Known for: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
This book explores how well-intentioned cultural trends in American education and parenting have led to emotional fragility among young people. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that the embrace of safetyism, emotional reasoning, and the division of society into good and evil groups has undermined resilience and critical thinking. Drawing on psychology, philosophy, and social science, they propose ways to restore open debate and mental strength in schools and universities.
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Historical Context: From Safety Culture to Safetyism
To understand how our cultural norms changed so dramatically, we need to step back several decades. Beginning in the 1980s, America underwent a profound psychological and social transformation. Rising crime rates, kidnappings broadcast on television, and the nascent 24-hour news cycle made fear part...
From The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
The Untruth of Fragility: ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker’
Our first Great Untruth takes a direct stand against a principle of human development supported by centuries of wisdom and scientific research: that strength emerges through exposure to manageable stress. Modern psychology calls this antifragility—the idea that systems, including human beings, requi...
From The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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Greg Lukianoff is an American lawyer and free speech advocate, serving as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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