NYU Students Tried To Cancel Jonathan Haidt, And Proved His Entire Point

In this episode of Filtered with TJ Walker, TJ breaks down the remarkable controversy surrounding Jonathan Haidt’s NYU commencement address at Yankee Stadium. Haidt, the social psychologist behind The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation, has spent years warning that smartphones, social media, and modern campus culture are weakening young people’s ability to handle disagreement, discomfort, and opposing ideas. Then, when NYU selected him as commencement speaker, student leaders tried to get him disinvited, almost perfectly illustrating the argument Haidt has been making all along. TJ argues that this controversy is about much more than one graduation speech. It is about free speech, higher education, emotional resilience, smartphone addiction, teen mental health, Silicon Valley’s attention economy, and whether universities still exist to challenge students intellectually. Subscribe to Filtered with TJ Walker for sharp, independent political and cultural commentary on the stories shaping America