Episode 80 | VFL Reads: The Coddling Of The American Mind

Autumn and Hunter revisit a 7-year old article that seems even more relevant today.

In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” (The Atlantic, September 2015), Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how “emotional safety” has caused many college classrooms to avoid controversial ideas. They lament the effect it has on the debate of ideas and how it leads us to confuse emotions with objective truth. A significant book by the same name followed, and years later, what started on campus seems to have spread to American society at large.

How should Christians live, raise children, and engage in critical conversations in a culture that has defaulted to “emotional reasoning?”

Article mentioned in this episode:
"The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
(https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/)