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

1 Faculty News November 13, 2018 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-did-america-end-up-raising-generation-paranoia/2018/11/13/5d294ec8-e78b-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.1917bc37719e)-- "As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt chronicle in their new book, 'The Coddling of the American Mind,' today’s young people tend to be obsessed with safety, troubled by a pervasive sense of threat. Consequently, understandably, they’re anxious and depressed."

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