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Graduates boo Haidt during commencement speech

Graduates booed Stern professor Jonathan Haidt as President Linda Mills welcomed him to the stage at NYU’s all-university ...

Commencement Speaker and ‘Cancel Culture’ Critic Gets Booed After Student Government Called His Selection 'Deeply Unsettling'

Student government leaders had previously sent a letter in protest to the selection of Jonathan Haidt as commencement speaker ...
New York Magazine

Jonathan Haidt’s NYU Commencement Address Fittingly Became a Campus-Speech Debate

New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, ...

Pay Attention

It sounds simple. But paying attention is in fact one of the most challenging and meaningful things you can do. Because what ...

N.Y.U. Students Object to Speaker Who Calls Their Generation Coddled

Jonathan Haidt, a professor, says that colleges shield students from challenging ideas. But student leaders said he does not ...

Cancel Culture Critic To NYU Grads: Protect Your Attention, Do Hard Things

Controversial commencement speaker Jonathan Haidt urges graduates to delete social media apps on their phones and invest in ...
The College Fix

Students demand cancel culture critic Jonathan Haidt be canceled as NYU grad speaker

Student government leaders at New York University are demanding that administrators disinvite the 2026 commencement speaker, ...

Greene: NYU graduation speaker strikes out at Yankee Stadium

The invite to Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, sent tassels turning among ...

Woke NYU students whine as school picks commencement speaker who calls their generation coddled

Whiny New York University students are in an uproar after renowned social psychologist and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt ...