Coddling or Civil War
While psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s book about today’s rising Anxious Generation is atop the best-seller charts, a documentary based on one of his prior books, The Coddling of the American Mind, is making its way to cinemas and college campuses, criticizing the latter institutions’ tendency in recent decades to teach politicized hypersensitivity instead of robust debate. The compelling thing about approaching the issue from a psychological perspective instead of the usual political-philosophical angle is that we get to hear students... Читать дальше...