Ep. 67: Dr. Jonathan Haidt — How to Correct the Great Untruths That Are Harming Young People

My guest this week is professor and author Dr. Jonathan Haidt. We focused on Jon’s recent book, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, co-written with Greg Lukianoff. It aims to track down the cause of two parallel trends among Generation Z:  the rise in anxiety, depression, and suicide, and the increasing sensitivity among students on college campuses to ideas they find upsetting. We discussed "the three Great Untruths," where they come from, why they're so damaging, and how universities might address the epidemic of mental health problems in students.