# Professor Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," is highlighted

1 Faculty News April 16, 2020 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/coronavirus-medical-training.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=928667188&imp_id=164548271&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage) -- "Over the past decades, a tide of 'safetyism' has crept over American society. As Greg Lukianoff and [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) put it in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” this is the mentality that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you weaker. The goal is to eliminate any stress or hardship a child might encounter, so he or she won’t be wounded by it."

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