Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott
2023-02-09

Live From the Comedy Cellar: Comedy, Free Speech, and Why the Last 10 Years of American Life Have Been so Uniquely Stupid with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

In this live recording from The Comedy Cellar, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman has a discussion with Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott about why so much in America seems to be so messed up: Things like Gen Z, universities, social media, American democracy, and our sense of humor, grace, and decency. How can we lighten up, toughen up, and get less stupid?

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Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff, and Rikki Schlott

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Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist and the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business, and the author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and The Anxious Generation. Greg Lukianoff is an American attorney and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and co-author, with Haidt, of The Coddling of the American Mind. Rikki Schlott is an American journalist, New York Post columnist, and FIRE research fellow who co-authored The Canceling of the American Mind with Lukianoff.

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