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The Coddling of the American Mind, 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt; The Occupation of the American Mind, 2016 documentary film; Scientific American Mind, a former American popular science magazine; Runyan v. State, an 1877 Indiana court case that argued that a "distinct American Mind" is against the duty to retreat
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
The Coddling of the American Mind describes a rise in this approach within higher education in the United States. [5] Safetyism is also considered an ideology that places self-perceived safety, especially the feeling of being protected from disagreeable ideas and information, above all other concerns.
The Claremont Institute is an American conservative think tank based in Upland, California, founded in 1979 by four students of Harry V. Jaffa. [4] It produces the Claremont Review of Books, The American Mind, and other publications. The institute was an early defender of Donald Trump. [4]
The Closing of the American Mind draws analogies between the United States and the Weimar Republic. The modern liberal philosophy, he says, enshrined in the Enlightenment thought of John Locke —that a just society could be based upon self-interest alone, coupled by the emergence of relativism in American thought—had led to this crisis.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), co-written with Greg Lukianoff, expands on an essay the authors wrote for The Atlantic in 2015. [56] The book explores the rising political polarization and changing culture on college campuses and its effects on mental health.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. New York City: Penguin Press. ISBN 9780735224896. [21] Lukianoff, Greg; Schlott, Rikki (2023). The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All. Simon & Schuster.
The Occupation of the American Mind is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, and narrated by Roger Waters. [1] The film seeks to show how the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobby groups use their influence in the American media to shape the views of the American people on its control of the West Bank and Gaza. [2]