“The Coddling” movie’s Aryaan Misra came to the US from India for college with visions of American Pie and Socrates in his head. He was eager to party like American students and explore ideas like them too.
However, as Aryaan explains in today’s DVD extra, reality turned out to be quite a bit different from his expectations. The party part was spot on, but the other part, the fearless exploration of ideas, fell far short of his hopes.
Instead of challenging dogmas, he was taught to support them. Insead of engaging in Socratic dialogues with his professors, he was told what was right and what was wrong. Instead of debating ideas, a professor informed him that “debating is a patriarchal way of engaging in conversation.”
See below for our full library of DVD extras, including another one from Aryaan where he reflects on the benefits of debate:
Bring Debate Back to Campus! Three Benefits Students Are Missing
DVD Extras from “The Coddling” Movie
Most of our extras are reserved for paying subscribers who support our impact campaign, but some, including the first three, are free. Enjoy!
“I Wouldn't Call Wokeness a Religion. I Would Call It a Cult” — Kimi Katiti on the Worldview That Made Her Miserable
Jonathan Haidt on the Rise of Intersectional Social Justice on Campus: “Everything is group vs group"
When Kimi Left Wokeness: The Social Aspect of Starting Anew: Collaborating with White Men and other Blasphemies
Ben Shapiro at Stanford: His Presence “Threatened the Safety of Marginalized Community Members”
How Stanford Teaches Students to be Fragile Victims — “Every remotely bad thing that happens to students could send you spiraling towards a mental breakdown”
“Higher Ed is Lying to Students about Freedom of Speech” — Greg Lukianoff Explains Why It’s Not a Conservative Issue
“Who is Donald Trump? What is Left? What is Right?” — A once-naive international student discusses Jonathan Haidt and offers advice for college-bound teens
“She Burst into Tears Like She Had Committed a Hate Crime” — Aryaan Misra on How Colleges Foment Call-Out Culture
Jonathan Haidt on How Universities Foment Student Radicalism: “Their goal is to shape incoming students to be warriors for social justice”
Save Us from University Administrators! “The Peter Principle is on Fire in Academia" — Dr. Anthony Rodriguez Explains Why Campus Leaders Are So Frustrating
"We Were a Bad Influence on Each Other from a Very Early Age" — Greg Lukianoff's Free-Range Friendship with Anthony Rodriguez
“Everyone’s Against Me. Everything is Dangerous” — Jonathan Haidt on How Gen Zers Have Been Taught to Fear Life
Gen Z Life is Packed with Self-Censorship — Aryaan Misra on the double lives of 20-somethings
Stanford's Exclusive Approach to "Inclusive" Speech — Greg Lukianoff: Don't confuse "upper class white liberal ways of seeing the world with truth itself”
“Destroying What is Magical About a College Campus” — Jonathan Haidt on Microaggression Training
Bring Debate Back to Campus! Three Benefits Students Are Missing
Don’t Talk About Your Cat: The Madness of Trigger Warnings: Lucy Kross Wallace on the Hypersensitive World of Treatment Centers
