2023-10-17
1 小时 4 分钟Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, joins us to discuss his new book The Canceling of the American Mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, and here is your host, David Barr Kirtley.
Hello, and welcome to episode 552 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
I'm David Barr Kirtley, author of the book save me, please and other stories.
Publishers Weekly visceral settings and robust characters will have readers marveling at how much Kirtley is able to fit into a limited page count for SFF fans.
With no time to sink into a doorstopper, these concentrated doses of genre goodness will hit the spot.
And Kirkus reviews Kirtley employs sharp, concise prose that complements his puckish sense of humor.
The authors passionate voice breathes life into this wonderful array of tales.
So again, the book is called save me, please and other stories, and it's available now on Amazon.com.
and our guest today is Greg Gukianov, president of Fhir, the Foundation for Individual Rights and expression of free speech advocacy group.
He's also the author, along with Jonathan Haidt, of the best selling book the coddling of the american how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure.
And in this interview, we'll be exploring his love of superhero comics and discussing his new book, the Cancelling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture undermines trust and threatens us all.
But there is a solution, which he wrote with Ricky Schlott.
And now here's our interview with Greg Gukianov.
All right, so we're here with Greg Gukianov.
Welcome to the show.
Thanks very much for having me.
Okay, so on Twitter, you said, I spent the early years of my life wondering, why the hell aren't people more blown away by the existence of narwhals?
I felt the same way about neutron stars, 1960s Spider man cartoons, and Robotech.
So what's so great about narwhals?