One quick announcement …
Our Graduation Sale Ends This Week!
Whether you’re a grad or not, you’ll get 50% off until June 15. That means you can watch the feature documentary as many times as you want and enjoy all of our bonus content—including DVD extras (check out the long and growing list below), special event coverage, and more—all for just $4 per month!
And remember, you can gift a subscription to your favorite grad or anyone who’s interested in helping an anxious generation find happiness.
We really appreciate our paid subscribers because they help us bring The Coddling movie to bigger and bigger audiences. We’re especially interested in reaching Gen Zers and their parents.
In fact, Saeed Malami, the interview subject featured in today’s DVD extra, has participated in four screenings, including at Princeton University (see photo below).
Now for our latest DVD Extra …
Imagine you’re heading to America for the very first time. You’re going, not to vacation, but to get a college degree:
You're coming to America in the fall of 2016 from Nigeria. Donald Trump is about to be elected president. The tension on campus, you can literally cut it with a knife and I'm out here like, “Who is Donald Trump? What is left? What is right? Who's liberal and what is conservative?”
Like, I'm coming in with zero knowledge of political America.
That’s how Saeed Malami introduces himself in The Coddling movie. The recent grad goes on to explain how the toxic campus culture at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania led him to fall into a deep depression.
It's a confluence of a number of factors. One is you know, you're coming from a very, very different cultural background, and you're meeting a new culture that’s telling you to change, not change a little but change radically. This is who you have to be. The second was just the nature of conversation on campus. You know, no room for debate, no room for conversation.
In the film, Saeed explains how he fought to stay happy and sane. And when I asked him what advice he’d give to people considering going to college, he grinned and said, “Don’t go!”
The quip is one of Saeed’s many laugh lines, and in this DVD extra he delves deeper into a response.
He talks about what students should expect at college and how reading Jonathan Haidt helped him keep his head on straight.
Check out DVD Extras from “The Coddling” Movie
Most of our extras are reserved for paying subscribers who support our global tour, but some, including the first, are free. Enjoy!
“I Wouldn't Call Wokeness a Religion. I Would Call It a Cult” — Kimi Katiti on the Worldview That Made Her Miserable
“She Burst into Tears Like She Had Committed a Hate Crime” — Aryaan Misra on How Colleges Foment Call-Out Culture
Ben Shapiro at Stanford: His Presence “Threatened the Safety of Marginalized Community Members”
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
