Jonathan Haidt
Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who studies moral reasoning and the effects of social media on development and democratic institutions. He is the author of books including The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind, and The Anxious Generation.
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59said about them ↓ Everything Jonathan Haidt said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Haidt: American democracy is likely to fail catastrophically within two decades
“I think that American democracy is likely to fail catastrophically at some point in the next decade or two decades. It's very hard to predict the future, but I think we are, the way we're headed is a very, very bad direction.”
Haidt: Immigrants from non-English speaking countries have better work ethic
“Immigrants who are from non-English speaking countries. That's right. They have a better work ethic.”
Haidt: Rapid tech changes threaten the survival of American liberal democracy
“The changes that are coming to us because of tech are so earth-shattering and so fast that they are changing the basic conditions of America's liberal democracy in ways that I think it may not survive.”
Haidt compares shift to algorithmic social media to shift from heroin to fentanyl
“Just as like the move from heroin to fentanyl kills lots and lots of people, because fentanyl is so incredibly concentrated, the move from television to algorithm-driven social media, where It's not just like mass marketed, we think this show, you know, Nielse…”
Haidt: Social media is wildly inappropriate for minors
“Social media is wildly inappropriate for minors. It's full of extreme sex, violence you know, men from all over the world reaching out to you because they want sex.”
Haidt: Gen Z is less ambitious, successful, happy, and competent
“They're less ambitious, they're less successful, they're less happy, they're less competent.”
Haidt: Tolerating campus intimidation caused massive brand destruction of elite higher ed
“So that was the precedent that was set, and that, I believe, was the beginning of one of the greatest brand destructions in American history. Higher ed used to have one of the greatest brands in the world. Elite higher ed was the envy of the world. Now it's a …”
Haidt: The political left is beyond hope after years of trying to advise them
“I spent so many years trying to help the left using moral psychology so that they would stop losing elections, and I finally decided they're beyond hope.”
Haidt: Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster
“Progressive revolutions have an almost perfect record of disaster. I mean, it always descends into, Chaos and economic chaos and cruelty.”
Haidt: Mandatory diversity training does not work and makes things worse
“Mandatory diversity training you know, all these things we did in response to protesters that don't work or that make things worse.”
Haidt: Social media intimidation by vocal minorities degrades group intelligence
“A small number of young people use social media, not to make arguments, not to respond to arguments, but to destroy anyone who contradicts their sacred values. And that's what makes a group stupid.”
Haidt: Social media intimidation prevents university leaders from defending academic values
“Social media gave everybody a dart gun, and as a result, Because most people don't want to shoot anybody, but the far left, the far right, trolls, a few groups of people shoot moderates in their institutions, and they shoot the leaders of the institutions. So …”
Haidt: Studies show majorities across all demographic groups dislike wokeness
“The hidden tribe study and others find that majorities of everybody hate wokeness, black, white, male, female, even majority of Democrats don't like wokeness.”
Haidt: Democrats are likely to get wiped out electorally
“But the Democrats aren't, are likely to get wiped out because Most people really hate what the cultural left is doing in their schools, their companies and their country.”
Haidt: Tech platforms cannot stop foreign disinformation without intelligence agency coordination
“Yes, of course they took some easy steps, but there is no way they can get a handle on this. This has to be, and I think they call it for this. This has to be a sort of a government-wide partnership between Coordinated between the CIA, the FBI, NSA, Facebook, …”
Haidt: Condition Section 230 liability protection on basic platform responsibilities
“I would like us to consider that the federal government mandate That if you want the benefit of level of, you want the benefit of section two 30 protection and this incredible freedom from lawsuits that only you and the gun lobby have because of lobbying, you …”
Haidt: Campus victimhood culture awards social status for weakness and victimization
“They say reflects a new moral culture in which you achieve status, not by being strong, not by being beautiful, not by being smart. You achieve status by being, by emphasizing how much you've been victimized, and if you haven't been victimized, then you achiev…”
Haidt: Modern fragility and speech norms make Gen Z bad workplace cooperators
“It's that they've been raised with a set of norms. That's really bad for them. That makes them very bad cooperators. And if you can't cooperate, you can't be employed.”
Haidt: A child would wait 700,000 years in a car before abduction
“There are about a hundred people, a hundred kids abducted a year in the United States by strangers. At present rates of abduction, you'd have to leave your kid alone in a car in a parking lot for 700,000 years before they would probably be abducted.”
Haidt: Academic classrooms must not be safe spaces
“Our argument has always been that the classroom must not be a safe space, that classrooms must be places where any claim will be challenged, not Not attacked not shamed, but counterarguments backed by evidence will be given.”
Haidt: Most NYU students using TikTok wish it was never invented
“How many of you use TikTok or one of those programs at least once a week? The great, not everybody, but the great majority of hands go up. How many of you wish that it was never invented? The great majority of hands go up.”
Haidt: Millennials had in-person childhoods on flip phones unlike Gen Z
“The difference between the millennials and Gen Z is that the millennials went through puberty on flip phones and they actually, and they used those phones to meet up with each other, and they saw each other, and they got together in person, they made eye conta…”
Haidt: Believing the three 'great untruths' makes young people anxious and depressed
“The central idea of the coddling was that there are three great untruths, ideas that are so bad that if any young person believes all three, they're almost certain to be depressed, anxious not amount to much in life.”
Haidt: Social media super-empowers political extremes while silencing the center
“And so the far left becomes super empowered, the far right becomes super empowered, and the center left and the center right go silent, and that's what I think is, you know, that's, I think, a real disaster for our country,”
The other half of the tape: Jonathan Haidt's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 52 times in 23 episodes across the shows. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Alex Kantrowitz 24Neil Pasricha 4Jason Calacanis 4David Friedberg 4Rory Sutherland 3Chris Williamson 2Annie Duke 2Todd Simkin 1
Statements about Jonathan Haidt, by other people (7)
Novick: Society cannot wait for causal proof before protecting youth from tech
“There really was a significant body of research pointing to The challenges and potential danger, dangers, and I don't think we need to wait for more science. I think, you know, we don't let children play with knives. We don't wait till we find out what happens…”
Novick: Overprotective parenting drives youth anxiety alongside technology
“Technology is not the only culprit in creating a generation of anxious children. It's overprotective parents who feel That their child can't ever experience a negative feeling and certainly not a negative feeling about them as parents.”
Swisher: Haidt is directionally correct that screens harm girls especially
“The screens are, have a deleterious effect on especially girls. I think there's no, I think directionally he's correct.”
Simkin: Call-out culture incentivizes finger-pointing regardless of expertise
“The big problem with call out culture is that we're rewarding people just for the call out. That it doesn't matter what their other behavior it is. It doesn't matter what other positions they have, what knowledge they have, what expertise they have. They just …”
Friedberg: Beyond basic needs, rate of progress predicts happiness, not absolute income
“Beyond that standard of living, once you're able to get food and housing and all the things you need to survive and thrive, what predicted happiness was how much things changed from year to year.”
Swisher: Pop-nonfiction bestsellers rely on a formula of studies and controversy
“There's like a few studies that you string together, or, you know, I just interviewed Jonathan Haidt, for example. You have a premise, then you string a few studies together, and then you get in arguments with people. That seems to be the way to do it.”
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Big Technology 27
the Knowledge Project 13
All-In 12
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
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2024 30 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- Yubo Wants To Replace Performative Social Media With Real Time Social Discovery
- Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
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- E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jonathan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern | 1 | 39 | 90% 9/10 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern | 1 | 31 | 75% 3/4 | full record on All-In → |
| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern | 1 | 21 | 100% 3/3 | full record on Big Technology → |