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

1 Faculty News August 28, 2018 ![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/2018/08/27/books/review/splintering-william-egginton-coddling-greg-lukianoff-jonathan-haidt.html) -- "'When adult-supervised activities crowd out free play, children are less likely to develop the art of association,' Lukianoff and [Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) write, along with other social skills central to the making of good citizens capable of healthy compromise. Worse, the consequences of a generation unable or disinclined to engage with ideas and interlocutors 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."

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