Episode · Breaking Points · 2025-04-22
Books mentioned on Free Speech Warrior GOES OFF On Woke Right, Left
Emily Jashinsky discussed The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others, The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others, and The American Wine Society Basic Guide to Pruning by John Roberts McGrew. Greg Lukianoff discussed We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Canceling of the American Mind
The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott examines how contemporary call-out culture undermines trust, threatens public discourse, and offers practical solutions to restore open communication.
Discussed“First of all, you are the author of several books and more recently this one. Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind. But more recently, uh you know, you might look at that and be like, "Oh, this is a right-wing guest or something."”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt investigates how modern safetyism, declining childhood resilience, and the rapid rise of social media are negatively impacting the mental health and emotional development of younger generations.
Discussed“That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”
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The American Wine Society Basic Guide to Pruning
Discussed“In Greg, you didn't just write cancelling of the American mind. That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”
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We Have Never Been Woke
We Have Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi is a contemporary sociological critique examining elite hypocrisy, political polarization, and the true nature of modern social movements.
Discussed“I think um I'm reading Musa Algarvey's um book, We've Never Been Woke, and he he really kind of saw James Lindseay's term woke right, you know, coming that essentially when you look at some of the tenants of the right of the hard the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind.”
“cancelling of the American mind you know Harvard does not come out that does not come out particularly well.”