#291 – Jonathan Haidt

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #291:

  1. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
  2. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
  3. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
  4. iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean M. Twenge
  5. Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy
  6. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk
  7. The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald
  8. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU and author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The Happiness Hypothesis.


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