"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it heavily in diversity and academia debates as an intellectual analysis of the truth versus social justice conflict.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Duke University Department of Political Science

Topic

universities truth vs social justice

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• Somewhat related to the issue at hand and representative of the current, very charged landscape on social issues, is this video: [VIDEO] The speaker makes the case that current social conflicts at many American universities – though probably representative of the general population as well …

• Jonathan Haidt does a great job explaining Honor, Dignity, and Victimhood cultures: [VIDEO] (whole talk is excellent) His take is a little different (that Victimhood culture is a result of a march through time from Honor to Dignity to Victimhood). He's referencing the same paper …

• I'm glad you posted this.. I had heard about anti CoC a while back(perhaps from you?) but never really dug into it.. Video game journalism was ruined for me back in 2011 and 2012 for reasons we all know and I was hyper aware of …