Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt on The Coddling of the American Mind: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #34

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Listen to a discussion of The Coddling of the American Mind, just published this month, with the authors Greg Lukianoff and Jon Haidt. They discuss the history behind the Atlantic article on coddling, Greg's battle with depression, Nietzchean and Stoic views of pain, and other topics.

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