Are Colleges Turning Out Our Most Self-Absorbed and Fragile Generation?
By Peter Wood October 17, 2018
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Towards the end of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, the authors declare that it is “a good time for us to lay our cards on the table, politically speaking.†Lukianoff confesses he is “a liberal with some sympathy for libertarian perspectives.†Haidt declares he “is a centrist who sides with the Democratic Party on the great majority of issues.†Neither statement will surprise anyone who has read their previous books or followed their public careers. Yet remarkably, the two are celebrated and supported by a broad swath of American conservatives. Why?
Mainly, because they are highly effective opponents of the lunatic left. Moreover, their efficacy is built in large measure on their I-am-not-a-conservative-but positioning. Lukianoff is best known as a scourge of campus speech codes and foe of university bureaucrats who suppress the First Amendment rights of students. He does this in the spirit of a First Amendment absolutist who is willing to defend virtually any kind of speech, regardless of its scabrous nature or repellent intent.
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