![]() ![]() As is virtually inevitable in any attempt to develop a grand theory in roughly 250 pages, The Coddling of the American Mind, while often interesting, is a very uneven book whose reach sometimes exceeds its grasp. Emerging from the intersection between Lukianoff’s work as a First Amendment attorney who heads the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Haidt’s interest in social psychology (he currently teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business), the book first applies its framework to the contemporary college experience and then moves on to broader issues. ![]() Their book, which expands an argument the authors made in a widely discussed article for the Atlantic, identifies three bad ideas that are allegedly having a pernicious effect on “iGen” children and, in some cases, their parents. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, the authors of The Coddling of the American Mind, cannot be accused of lacking ambition. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. ![]()
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