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Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American Mind (2019, Penguin Books) 4 stars

"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of …

The coddling of the "Kids these days" mind

1 star

Pointless. Juvenoia for the cultured. The "untruths" that this book are based on are pretty much handwaved into existence so they can serve as strawman punchbags for quick and easy counter-arguments.

The authors try to take an enlightened centrist approach, but the result is that conservative AR-15 wielding terrorists are presented as the other side of the same coin as students that send sympathetic letters about worker rights and call for peaceful protests in favor of deplatforming hate speech.