# Professor Jonathan Haidt's co-authored book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," is mentioned

1 Faculty News December 4, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal ](https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-read-what-in-2018-politics-and-policy-1544454033)-- "Messrs. Lukianoff and Haidt take on the problems of campus culture through the lens of safety—not that we have too little of it but that we have too much. After a generation of protecting kids from danger, both real and imagined, we have left them with the social equivalent of a peanut allergy, hypersensitive to offense and unable to cope with ordinary disagreement."

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