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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: Courtney Moorehead Balaker on The Coddling of the American Mind
Description: If you've not read theĀ AtlanticĀ article The Coddling of the American Mind, or the book that followed it, you've likely heard us recommend it. And now, it's a documentary, so Hannah got straight on the Zoom to California to talk to its producer Courtney Moorehead Balaker about the current mental health crisis among young people and how, rather than helping, the cultureĀ on USĀ universityĀ campuses is making young people more vulnerable. And howĀ tribalism, helicopter parenting and the āone strike andĀ you'reĀ outā culture of public shaming has left young people afraid to make mistakes.TheĀ original...