S2 Ep1004: #1004 - The Coddling of the American Mind: Greg Lukianoff
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
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Summary
Greg Lukianoff is the co-author (with Dr. Jonathan Haidt) of what I think is one of the top 5 most important books of the last decade: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Ideas and Bad Intentions Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. In this conversation, I talk to Greg about the content of this book including the rise of safetyism, the diminishing of free speech on college campuses, the concept of anti-fragility, whether ideas are harmful, whether is healthy or damaging to “platform” ideas you disagree with, whether speech is violence, whether safe spaces on campuses are helping students, and whether trigger warnings help improve a person’s mental heath.
A graduate of American University and Stanford Law School, Greg Lukianoff is an attorney and the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate and his writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe, in addition to dozens of other publications.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of The Origin of All. I am so excited about this podcast |
| 0:05.1 | episode. I have on the show Greg Lukionov. Greg is an attorney, a New York Times best selling |
| 0:10.7 | author and the president and CEO of Fire, which stands for foundation for individual rights and |
| 0:16.5 | expression. He is the co-author with Jonathan Hight of one of my favorite books. I mean, I would |
| 0:23.2 | say one of the most important books in the last five to 10 years. I don't think that's an overstatement. |
| 0:28.8 | The coddling of the American mind how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation |
| 0:34.1 | for failure. If you have not read this book, you need to read this book. It's absolutely |
| 0:39.6 | incredible. So, super excited to have Greg on the show. We had a wonderful conversation. Lots of |
| 0:44.4 | great stuff here. So, please welcome to the show for the first time. He won it on me. Greg Lukionov. |
| 0:59.2 | All right, hey, friends. Every now and then, I reach out to a guest who I'm pretty sure I will |
| 1:04.2 | never be able to get on the show. So, I've been wanting to have Greg on for a while and I was like, |
| 1:10.4 | well, he doesn't know me from Adam. So, I said, I'm just going to try and take a stab in a dark |
| 1:15.9 | reached out and you agree to come on the show. So, this is one of those fanboy moments where I |
| 1:21.0 | can't believe I'm talking to the author of one of my favorite books I've ever read. I mean, |
| 1:25.8 | this is, this is like me talking to the possible Paul almost. |
| 1:30.5 | Greg, thanks for having me on. Yeah, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:33.0 | So, the book is the coddling of the American mind. How good intentions and bad ideas are |
| 1:37.7 | setting up a generation for failure, co-author with Jonathan Hyte. And is that any pronounces |
| 1:44.0 | last name? There's always a big debate about that. Oh, yeah, that is. Most people who they say |
| 1:49.0 | hate and he's like, no, tight. So, somebody I know was 100% convinced that it's hate. I'm like, |
| 1:55.7 | I've never heard him say, hey, and like, no, it's hate. I'm like, I don't. Anyway, this book is |
| 2:01.3 | at least the most important top five. I'll just say top five most important books I read in |
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