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The Gist

College-Aged Coddling

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, guest host John McWhorter considers campus safe spaces.  In the past few years, college campuses have been shifting away from havens for free speech to safe spaces that bar divisive speakers from campus. But is this the right move, or are we damaging the growth of college students by creating these spaces rather than offering intellectual challenges. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt explore this in their new book The Coddling of the American Mind. Lukianoff joins us on the Gist to discuss.  In the Spiel, are the new models of protest a useful continuation of the civil rights movement? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I can't get more explicit than may.

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Let's just say it may.

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It's Monday, October 1st, and this is The Gist.

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I'm John McWhorter.

0:46.2

I teach linguistics at Columbia.

0:48.6

I'm the host of Lexicon Valley here at Slate, and I write for the Atlantic.

0:53.6

And I'm honored to be sitting in today for Mike Pesca.

0:57.3

And I want to get started right away with a question.

1:00.6

How is claiming weakness a form of strength?

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Of course you might ask who said it was, and unfortunately it's some of the smartest

1:09.0

people in the world.

1:10.6

Much of our intelligentsia, on college campuses and beyond, are teaching America one of the

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most counterintuitive ways of thinking that humankind has ever known.

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We learned some key perspectives on this from a crucial new book, The Coddling of the

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