An interesting point throughout the book is how children born beginning around 1995-1996 started to have a different sort of upbringing than children born prior. Jon is very skilled at taking very complicated ideas and explaining them clearly. A lot of times as a lawyer when you re-write, editors can think they are only changing something slightly but by the way they reword it, something can go from being technically legally correct to simply wrong. Jon is incredibly gifted as not just a writer and editor-but as a re-writer as well. We got careful, thoughtful help and feedback from dozens of people and we were so thankful that we even put the acknowledgments up online so even people who did not read the book could see them. All throughout, we got fantastic help from the staff at FIRE (The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), especially my chief researcher Pamela Paresky and my assistant Eli Feldman. As we got to the end of the book, Jon added in a lot more about the science, data, and areas of his expertise from psychology to Emile Durkheim and really perfected the wording. The way we ended up dividing it up was I took the lead on most the preliminary work, the structure, some of the ideas, and researching some of the major incidents. Something that was really helpful in writing with Haidt was understanding that he is a phenomenal writer and trusting in that. A lot of people have their egos tied up in the particular way they construct their prose. Writing with a co-author is risky, especially if you are friends with the person. You have written other books in the past however, what is the main difference writing when you have a co-author? How does this process differ from books one writes on his own? Haidt talk about sitting down in Greenwich Village to discuss your plans for undertaking this project. Lukianoff, thank you for speaking with us today. Haidt on the book, reactions to their work, as well as his upbringing and lessons that cognitive behavioral therapy might shed on campus political debates. He joins Erich Prince and Merion West to discuss his experience collaborating with Dr. Lukianoff is also the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, which examines the state of public discourse on college campuses. He co-authored the 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Dr. Greg Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), an organization that seeks to promote First Amendment rights of American college students and faculty members. “On campuses so far, I have been pleasantly surprised that I have been invited to talks that have been well-received and civil.”
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