Ted & Courtney Balaker – The Psychic Costs of Campus Progressivism

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0:00 How woke campus culture degrades mental health

5:47 The rise of “microaggressions”

'8:21 The harms caused by discourses of harm

13:47 The digital lives of children

19:08 Why Courtney and Ted produced Coddling themselves

24:56 A Nigerian immigrant’s encounter with campus progressivism

32:36 Is Trump’s anti-DEI posture aiding free speech on campus?

37:58 Ted and Courtney’s decision to homeschool their child

41:48 How comedy brings us together

48:26 Ted and Courtney take on the Rob Henderson story

Recorded August 8, 2025

Links and Readings

The Coddling of the American Mind doc

The Coddling of the American Mind book

Dead Poet’s Society

The Canceling of the American Mind

Greg Lukianoff conversation

Can We Take a Joke

Coddling movie Substack

Noam episodes

Rob Henderson, Troubled

Rob Henderson episode

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