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12 Feb, 13 tweets, 5 min read
THREAD: This week, we got an email from someone who found our Catching Up With “Coddling” (CUWC) series on thecoddling.com & asked why we stopped the series after 2 articles. Concerning, b/c we’ve published 8 of them so far! 1/12 cc: @JonHaidt
It was our fault that the articles were not as easy to find as they should have been, so we’re making navigation tweaks with the help of FIRE's great web dev @jpmerig. If YOU didn’t know about them, read on! 2/12
CUWC part 1: Introduction. It, well, introduces the series, identifying the trends we’ll update with new information we’ve learned since the book was released. 3/12

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CUWC part 2: Trigger warnings, screen time v. social media, #COVID & the continuing decline of Gen Z’s mental health 4/12

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CUWC part 3: No matter what you’ve heard: ‘Right-on-Left’ censorship is still a thing on campusI 5/12

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ZERO TWEET: We interrupt this thread to give you the option of continuing to Catch Up With “Coddling,” OR take a detour to learn how Audible ironically censored the audio version of my free speech book, “Unlearning Liberty!” 0/12

CUWC part 4: To the surprise of NO ONE, political polarization has only gotten worse 6/12

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CUWC part 5: New insight into paranoid parenting 7/12

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CUWC part 6: U.S. income stratification: a seventh causal thread? 8/12

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CUWC part 7: The #MustListen @katejulian interview, ‘Runaway Homophily,’ & the second ‘Coddling’ Caveat 9/12

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CUWC part 8: Some big wins for free play & childhood independence 10/12

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That brings us to today! Please stay tuned for the next Catching up with “Coddling” article on the bureaucratization of campus, Coming Soon!™ Find future posts in upcoming tweets or bookmark the CUWC archive HERE: 11/12

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BONUS: While not quite CUWC, here is a “Coddling” caveat, where I conclude we should have covered some benefits of social media in “Coddling” & how I experienced those benefits recovering from surgery! 12/12

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26 Feb
THREAD: The winner of my Prestigious Ashurbanipal award for February 2021 is @mgurri’s prophetic book “The Revolt of the Public,” specifically the extended 2018 edition. 1/10

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Recommended to me by @kmele, it has had a profound effect on my thinking on the state of the world.

The book introduces two key concepts I’ve incorporated into my “modular argument” for #freespeech. 2/10
1st: “Gurri’s negation,” his observation that the explosion of social media & information technology has tremendous power to tear down institutions, ideas, & people (e.g. cancel culture), but, as of yet, very little ability to create or sustain. 3/10
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5 Feb
THREAD: For some fun TGIF fare let’s highlight some great @TheFIREorg gifs (TGIGIFs?) made by our AMAZING comms staff! (All of which are available through the gif button on Twitter & Facebook!) 1/8
I LOVE this animation of the logo for my blog, the Eternally Radical Idea! It salutes 3 once-radical ideas — the earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun, the structure of hydrogen AND Doctor Manhattan’s iconic symbol! 2/8

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This adorable gif is from our Speech Code of the Month for February 2021. We feel like we’re stuck in a Groundhog’s Day-style time loop, having complained about this civility policy @JohnsHopkins since 2006! 3/8

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2 Feb
THREAD: In our 8th installment of Catching Up With Coddling, our series updating trends @JonHaidt and I covered in Coddling of the American Mind, we’re covering free play & childhood independence with help from @FreeRangeKids & @DianeRedleaf. 1/10

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Since 2018, studies have continued to confirm the positive effects of free play on childhood development. For example, Feb 2020 meta-analysis of 16 studies showed a variety of benefits of outdoor free play vs structured indoor play 2/10

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A 2020 study on an elementary school that implemented @LetGrowOrg Play Club where students participate in unstructured free play found that participants reported better moods & greater readiness to learn. 3/10

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27 Jan
Today on ERI: @AdGo calls out @UCF for its attempt to fire tenured prof @CharlesNegy in a way that "will undermine the concept of academic freedom." (1/22)

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In Dec. 2019, students complained about Negy’s tweets, calling them racist & harmful; @UCF said they were #freespeech. In June 2020, students complained again. This time, @UCF solicited more complaints & opened an investigation. (2/22)

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The day after that, @UCF held a video chat where students asked about Negy. Admin said, “the wheels are in motion… believe that by the time you get on the campus as a freshman, it will have been dealt with.” (The “it” was Prof Negy.) (3/22)

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14 Jan
For part 7 of our “Catching Up With ‘Coddling’” series, I sat down with @TheAtlantic’s @katejulian to take a long look at the role of parents in childhood anxiety, some potential causes, AND a promising new treatment. 1/15

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If you haven’t seen it yet, “Catching Up With ‘Coddling’” is where we revisit the topics in @JonHaidt & my 2018 book, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” with new data, developments, and caveats. 2/15

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.@katejulian’s May cover story in The Atlantic, “What Happened to American Childhood,” focuses squarely on how parental anxiety contributes to anxiety in kids, & what parents (who are sometimes irrational/afraid) can do about it. 3/15

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23 Dec 20
THREAD: So @vox writer @seanilling just said that ppl like me worry too much about #freespeech b/c “speech has never been freer.” Bizarre assertion in 2020. Speech was probably freer in 2005 before the "democratic recession" began, but it was certainly freer in, say, 2015. (1/65)
It’s important to address this because there’s been a trend in “nothing to see here,” thinly sourced stories claiming that nobody should really worry about free speech, Cancel Culture, or any of these themes. (2/65)
So, where to begin?

First, I'll start with the global picture, but don't worry, I'll get to my specialty, censorship in US higher education, later in this thread.

Bottomline: The situation for global #freespeech has gotten worse this year & over the past several years (3/65)
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