Professors and students shouldn’t be afraid to express themselves, make mistakes, find better ways of thinking and living through passionate disputation.
The authors are right to push back hard against the cultivation of fragility and victimhood, and to defend free speech as essential to the mission of higher education. “Lukianoff and Haidt do an excellent job of reminding readers of how the assumption of fragility can be disempowering.
“A disturbing and comprehensive analysis of recent campus trends… Lukianoff and Haidt notice something unprecedented and frightening… The consequences of a generation unable or disinclined to engage with ideas that make them uncomfortable are dire for society, and open the door – accessible from both the left and the right – to various forms of authoritarianism.” - The New York Times Book Review, by Thomas Chatterton Williams
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