College students can be a rabid bunch, and NYU’s graduating class proved it by booing one of their own professors at Yankee Stadium.
His follow-up to “The Coddling of the American Mind,” called “The Anxious Generation,” has spent over a year on international bestseller lists and is the reason phone-free school policies are now being written into state law.
The protest came from the 4-member Executive Committee of NYU’s Student Government Assembly, not the full student body. Their May 5 statement accused Haidt of “homophobic remarks in a class,” “public misconceptions about transgender identity,” and “disturbing rhetoric around antiracism, social justice, and diversity, equity and inclusion.”…