Books & Ideas

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

Check me and AdGo out in ‘The Free Inquiry Papers,’ available tomorrow!

Current and former FIRE staffers contribute two chapters to this who’s who of academic freedom and campus free speech commentary.

Apr 14, 2025 • Greg Lukianoff

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