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The pair argued that some campus practices—presumably intended to protect students from being harmed by words and ideas deemed offensive or distressing—seemed to be interfering with students' ability to get along with each other, and could even be having a deleterious effect on their mental health. Among those practices: training students to identify microaggressions (things people say or do, often unintentionally, that are interpreted as expressions of bigotry), turning classrooms and lecture halls into intellectual safe spaces (where students are protected from words and ideas they might find upsetting), and the issuing of trigger warnings: alerts about the potentially “triggering” content of written work, films, lectures, and other presentations.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
Robert Heinlein

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As in many things there is a happy medium, a blessed center.

But for what it’s worth, when Harvard still had a robust Christian ethic, it wouldn’t be choosing materials that wallowed in these edgy and dicey areas in the first place. And like as not, theses would be about some point of Christian faith.

Harvard does not need a trim. Harvard needs a reboot.