The Coddling of the American Mind

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's 2018 argument — that American universities are harming students by validating three 'Great Untruths' (fragility, emotional reasoning, us-vs-them thinking) — the most influential critique of campus culture in the 2010s.

Creates the safetyism critique of university culture — The Coddling connects CBT (which teaches that catastrophizing and emotional reasoning are distortions to overcome) with the observation that campus culture increasingly validates these same distortions; the framework made what had been a free speech complaint into a mental health and epistemological argument.