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What’s Wrong with the Ivy League? Ask Me *Almost* Anything: Featuring Cornell associate professor !
The Coddling movie community loves the essay by Randy we published on Monday: “Another Ivy League President is Gone: Why I Have Been Expecting Cornell's Martha Pollack to ‘Retire’”
And we’re so happy Randy agreed to participate in a thread for paid subscribers on Friday, May 17 starting at 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern.
You won’t find too many people like
, and picking his brain is another reason to consider upgrading to a paid subscription.Randy is an Ivy League insider and a champion for free speech and sanity. Want to find out why the Ivies are floundering or what’s up with Martha Pollack’s free speech fakery? Randy’s your guy!
Consider it an AMAA (Ask Me Almost Anything — please keep your questions focused on issues that will interest The Coddling Movie community).
See you Friday morning!
Now for our latest DVD extra —
Our interview subject Lucy Kross Wallace is just about to graduate from Stanford (way to go, Lucy!), and in this DVD extra she reflects on the time Ben Shapiro came to campus. Posters plastered everywhere warned students that Shapiro’s mere presence threatened the safety of marginalized community members.
Lucy thought the fliers were ridiculous, and that Shapiro should be allowed to speak. But she was afraid to think that thought or put it on paper:
And I remember even just writing the words, “I really disagree with what Ben Shapiro says, but I think he should be able to speak.” I hesitated before writing them down. I wasn't even showing them to anyone, but it felt like such a taboo thought that I didn't want to get the words on paper.
Lucy’s is an anecdote about catastrophizing and self censorship, two themes that are too common on campus today.
Check out More DVD Extras:
Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of Intersectional Social Justice on Campus: “Everything is group vs group"
Jonathan Haidt on How Universities Foment Student Radicalism: “Their goal is to shape incoming students to be warriors for social justice”
How Stanford Teaches Students to be Fragile Victims — “Every remotely bad thing that happens to students could send you spiraling towards a mental breakdown”
"We Were a Bad Influence on Each Other from a Very Early Age" — Greg Lukianoff's Free-Range Friendship with Anthony Rodriguez
“Everyone’s Against Me. Everything is Dangerous” — Jonathan Haidt on How Gen Zers Have Been Taught to Fear Life
Stanford's Exclusive Approach to "Inclusive" Speech — Greg Lukianoff: Don't confuse "upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself”
“Destroying What is Magical About a College Campus” — Jonathan Haidt on Microaggression Training
Bring Debate Back to Campus! Three Benefits Students Are Missing
