![]() ![]() JONATHAN HAIDT: But then suddenly around 2014, students began objecting to things that we thought were just strange and sometimes objecting in ways like not coming to talk to us but reporting us to authorities. They're used to students being provocative, and that was the starting point for Rachel Martin's conversation with Jonathan Haidt. Both have spent a lot of time in classrooms. The book is called "The Coddling Of The American Mind." It's written by free speech activist Greg Lukianoff and New York University Professor Jonathan Haidt. INSKEEP: A new book argues that such efforts on campus are harming an entire generation's intellectual development because they're shutting out ideas. ![]() UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Hey, hey, ho, ho, Charles Murray has got to go. ![]() ![]() INSKEEP: In Vermont, students at Middlebury College shouted down controversial speaker Charles Murray. UNIDENTIFED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Shut it down. You may recall that last year, students at the University of California at Berkeley demanded the cancellation of speeches by conservative commentators Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter. College campuses face a question - how to balance free speech against demands for safe spaces and trigger warnings. ![]()
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