We Will Not Coddle Your Mind. Greg Lukianoff Talks to A&G (2018)
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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From 2018...
Born out of popular 2015 Atlantic magazine essay, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt have written a new book, called “The Coddling of the American Mind.”
Mr. Lukianoff was kind enough to join Armstrong & Getty for a discussion about the new book...
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Meanwhile, if I might take the conversation to a higher plane, it's a pleasure to welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty show after too long in absence. |
| 0:12.3 | Greg Lukianoff, author along with Jonathan Haidt, of the coddling of the American mind and a book length extension and examination of their terrific groundbreaking Atlantic article |
| 0:23.2 | of a couple of months ago, or a couple of years ago, rather. |
| 0:26.4 | Greg is also, I believe, one of the founders of fire defending individual rights in higher |
| 0:30.8 | education, joins us now. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello, Greg. |
| 0:32.5 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:33.5 | That's great to be back. |
| 0:34.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:34.8 | How long ago was that Atlantic article? |
| 0:37.2 | It was 2015. It was the summer of 2015. |
| 0:40.2 | Wow. Well, you didn't turn things around with that article because things are worse now than they were. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, hey, hey, hey, you have to slow the ship before you turn it. |
| 0:48.9 | By the way, we decided to write the book is things got so much crazier after we wrote the article. |
| 0:53.4 | We were like, ooh, okay. |
| 1:10.8 | I think we have to go a little deeper into it. Yeah. Okay. A couple of quick notes before we dive into it in depth, Greg. Number one, I am proudly sending my youngest to a university that gets a green light from fire. Terrific. For communication. And I thank you for furnishing that resource. Secondly, as I was Googling your book and typed simply the cod, your book came up immediately |
| 1:18.2 | instead of that delicious fish. |
| 1:21.0 | That is a delicious fish. |
| 1:21.9 | It is getting some attention. |
| 1:26.6 | Thank God. |
| 1:27.3 | So let's talk about the coddling of the American minds, specifically young minds and the damage |
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