For a beautiful example, watch the following short lecture, The Rise of VICTIMHOOD Culture on Campus. Rather than seeing safety as one concern among many, it becomes a sacred value. And like myself, Haidt has been combatting the victim mentality. Safetyism, a term first used in the book The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, denotes a moral culture in which people are unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.

Jordan Peterson (another of my heroes) is championing with similar courage, but because of Haidt’s highly personable manner and mellifluous voice, he provokes less resistance than Peterson. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. This political domination has made the sciences less scientific and curtailed Freedom of Speech, thereby constraining development of the open-minded, rational thinking that is supposed to be the hallmark of higher education. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. His Heterodox Academy (I recommend you subscribe) has been spearheading the pushback against the far-left political domination of our universities, particularly of the social sciences. I love him because he is a true peacemaker, using good scientific psychology and philosophical thinking to help people of opposing political and religious views understand and appreciate one another. Professor Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist specializing in ethics, is author of the brilliant books, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

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