The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukinioanoff (constitutional lawyer and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and Jonathan Haidt (social psychologist at New York University Stern School of Business and the director of Heterodox Academy) had a mission for this book to challenge and find explanations for the mindset of a new generation - iGen, the young adults from American university campuses. Students are shutting down invited speakers and violent protests emerge to this end. In the growth of a call-out culture, speech is evaluated in terms of safety and danger.