Books & Ideas

Thomas Paine deserves more love

As America approaches its 250th birthday, let’s raise a glass to the most underappreciated radical of the Founding generation.

Jul 3 • Matthew Harwood

What Jonathan Haidt actually said at NYU — and what The Coddling of the American Mind actually argued

Responses to seven arguments against me, Jon, and our book from people who didn’t seem to read it

May 18 • Greg Lukianoff

Plato, ‘Gender Ideology,’ and the Efficient Rhetorical Fortress

The Texas A&M mess and what that little story says about the New Right’s comfort with censorship

Feb 19 • Greg Lukianoff

How we’re ensuring truth-seeking and critical thinking in the Age of AI

Why FIRE and Cosmos Institute are working together, and how that work is going

Feb 6 • John Coleman and Cosmos Institute

The Eternally Radical 2025 roundup

Every year I try to pretend I’m not the kind of person who enjoys a year-end roundup, and every year I fail in exactly the same way: by making one.

Dec 31, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

Is Higher Education even interested in reform?

A new featured article by the AAUP calls viewpoint diversity anathema to academic freedom. Where to even begin?

Oct 10, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff, Samuel J. Abrams, and Adam Goldstein

Ten years after ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’: What we warned, what happened, and what’s still at stake

Guess how teaching kids the habits of anxious and depressed people turned out?

Sep 26, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

Footnotes to the recent New York Times piece on FIRE

And a response to Jason Stanley’s claim that the crisis on campus for the last 10 years has been a “moral panic”

Aug 27, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

Celebrating two years of The Eternally Radical Idea on Substack!

Featuring a new — and very shareable — introduction to what ERI is all about.

Aug 13, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

‘War On Words’ LIVE! w/ Nadine Strossen

Discussing our latest book & more!

Jul 1, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff, Angel Eduardo, and Nadine Strossen

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My TED Talk is out today!

Here’s how I got into that famous red circle.

Jun 24, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

Cancel Culture vs. McCarthyism: the data is in

Cancel Culture is happening on a historic scale, Part 5

Apr 29, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

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