The Fracturing of the American Mind featuring Jonathan Haidt and Guests (S3 Ep.17)

Conversations with Coleman

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode is a recording of a live event that I did with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott. Jonathan Haidt is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. He is also the co-founder of Heterodox Academy, which I once wrote a blog post for back when I was probably 21 years old. Jonathan is the author of many books including "The Happiness Hypothesis", "The Righteous Mind", and "The Coddling of the American Mind" with his co-author Gregory Lukianoff. Greg Lukianoff is the president of FIRE which is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and probably the pre-eminent defender of free speech on college campuses. Greg is also the producer of several documentaries about free speech and is also a trained lawyer. Rikki Schlott is a columnist for the New York Post, a fellow at FIRE, a contributor at Reason Magazine, and the host of the Lost Debate Podcast. We all discuss what has changed since Jonathan and Greg published "The Coddling of the American Mind" back in 2018. We talk about the effect of social media on political polarization and mental health. We also discuss Jonathan's recent viral Atlantic essay called "Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid", and many other related topics. Unfortunately, because of the constraints of the live event, this is a shorter podcast than usual. However, I'm getting Jonathan back on the podcast very soon to have a full-length discussion about all this stuff. -Get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code [20COLEMAN] at Manscaped.com. That’s 20% off with free shipping at manscaped.com and use code [20COLEMAN]. -Sign up through wren.co/coleman to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! -Sign up today at butcherbox.com/COLEMAN to get two, 10 oz New York strip steaks and 8 oz of lobster claw and knuckle meat FREE in your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. This episode is a recording of a live
1:09.1	event that I did with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and
1:12.6	Ricky Schlott. Jonathan Haidt is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. He's also
1:18.9	the co-founder of Heterodox Academy, which I once wrote a blog post for back when I was probably
1:24.4	21 years old. And he's the author of many books, including the happiness
1:29.0	hypothesis, the righteous mind, and the coddling of the American mind with his co-author Gregory
1:35.3	Lukianoff. Greg is the president of fire, which is the foundation for individual rights in
1:41.1	education and probably the preeminent defender of free speech on college campuses.
1:45.8	He's also the producer of several documentaries about free speech, and he's a trained lawyer.
1:51.9	Ricky Schlaught is a columnist for the New York Post, a fellow at fire, a contributor at Reason
1:57.7	magazine, and the host of the Lost Debate podcast.
2:07.7	We all discuss what has changed since John and Greg published the coddling of the American mind back in 2018.
2:13.5	We talk about the effect of social media on political polarization and mental health.
2:20.0	We discussed John's recent viral Atlantic essay called Why the Past Ten Years of American Life have been uniquely stupid and lots of other related topics.
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