E197. Greg Lukianoff Wishes Business Wasn't Booming

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Greg Lukianoff (The Coddling of the American Mind , Unlearning Liberty ) sits down with Bridget for a conversation about free speech on college campuses, how social media sped everything up and created the trend of cancel culture, how much worse things have gotten since Coddling was published, and how people just lost their minds since Covid hit. They discuss how deeply messed up it is to tell people they're more fragile than they are, how the victimhood mentality is undermining cognitive behavioral therapy, the decline in college attendance, Greg's work with FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and why they're seeing an uptick in their caseload, how people are always talking about a "pendulum swing" but that's not how history works, and why you have to care about what's going on at elite colleges because it's going to mess up the rest of society downstream.

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0:55.0	Well, and you might know me from my terrible Twitter, my horrible books, or the nonsense I spout on podcasts like Rogan and Glenn Beck. It's all there.
1:05.0	Are you blackpilled or whitepilled for the future of the UK? What is a man?
1:11.0	What is a man? What is a? No, what is it? Are you whitepilled or blackpilled? No, seriously, this girl.
1:18.0	The fact that you discovered that gives me hope for some of the things that I still got.
1:24.0	Well, if you need James G. Blaine's autograph, you are welcome to it.
1:28.0	Of course, being the co-author of How to Have Impossible Conversations makes you the perfect guest for this train wreck of a show.
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1:45.0	This week on the podcast, I'm very excited to welcome Greg Luke Enough. Greg is an attorney, New York Times bestselling author, and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, Fire.
1:57.0	He is the author of Unlearning Liberty, Campus Censorship, and the end of American debate, Freedom from Speech, and Fire's Guide to Free Speech on Campus.
2:07.0	Most recently, he co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind, how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure with Jonathan Height.
2:15.0	Greg is a brilliant mind and a fearless speaker for free speech, and I hope you get as much out of this podcast as I did.
2:22.0	Enjoy. I'm with Greg Luke Enough, everybody. Welcome to Walkins, welcome.
2:27.0	Thanks for having me.
2:29.0	Another person I feel like I'm overdue for a conversation with. You've really been someone who has helped me try and put some context around what the hell is going on in the world right now, and I appreciate all you do with fire, and particularly your work with The Coddling in the American Mind.
2:51.0	Thank you. Yeah, I wish business wasn't booming.
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