The Coddling of the American Mind, reviewed by Dylan Selterman


In their new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt are sounding an alarm about a rising trend of emotional fragility in American culture. Specifically, they explain how this fragility manifests on university and college campuses, to the detriment of learning, academic freedom, discourse, and debate. The Coddling is an important and timely book, as our society is dealing with extremely challenging problems, and we will need to work together in order to solve them. But as these problems we face grow in magnitude, our ability to regulate our emotions and…