If you’d like to help un-coddle our culture, now is a great time to do it. We’ve cut subscription prices to help us reach more students, parents, and others with our message of free speech, anti-fragility, and hope. Check us out on Substack: https://t.co/4rVwKNvLNf

Every Columbus Day, the explorer is retried in the court of modern morality. But the real fight isn’t over Columbus, it’s over history itself. Edward Campbell on the tyranny of presentism and why erasing the past won’t make us wiser. Read on The Coddling https://t.co/z38zs4lBT5

Ken Jeong’s A Great Divide wants to teach empathy. Instead, it teaches fragility. LB — The Happy Underachiever — on why real Koreans roll their eyes at Asian-American films obsessed with racism and self-pity. Read on The Coddling 👇 https://t.co/5HZDBBFC3O

They don’t know what they’re talking about— and worse, they don’t know that they don’t. Meet the Smugnorant, America’s new hybrid of arrogance + ignorance. 👇 Read on The Coddling https://t.co/LEqJzUyn3a

Ted and Courtney had a lovely discussion with @deborahzarakobylt on her show @deborahkobyltlive about all things Coddling. Please take a listen and follow Deborah for more insightful conversations!

Words Are Violence That bloody lie is spreading — from campus slogans to the assassin of Charlie Kirk. If words = violence, then fists & bullets become fair responses to opinions. Ted Balaker explains why that’s a road back to barbarism. Read here: https://t.co/JFtraqGy3p

The biggest Netflix movie of the year isn’t a lecture on “representation.” Kpop Demon Hunters works because it rejects victimhood culture and tells a universal story: facing fear, embracing flaws, and growing stronger. LB explains why it matters 👇 https://t.co/l1HZXDZgF1

Schools love to say “follow the science.” Translation: “follow the studies that make us look good.” @KatyMcPherson9 exposes how education boards misuse research to defend the system—while kids fall further behind. Read here: https://t.co/ijKxDN0ELD

It’s less a movie than a mirror. The Left comes off angry and combative because deep down they’ve built an identity around fragility—every disagreement is an attack, every opinion that challenges theirs is “violence.” That mindset breeds hostility, not resilience. Meanwhile, the

Sayonara Jimmy? Kimmel mocked Charlie Kirk’s death. Days later: fired. Then — brought back. In his new essay, our renegade Canadian academic Doug Mann asks: is this cancel culture, conservative payback, or just the death rattle of late-night comedy? https://t.co/lg0NkHAxOq

"The Coddling of the American Mind" @coddlingmovie, is inspiring conversation about the issues many young people are facing in large part from social media pressure and the dialogue on some school campuses.

Authenticity, but make it fake. New on The Coddling: Ted Balaker reveals a startling stat—88% of college students admit to faking left-wing views just to survive socially and academically. Authenticity has become a liability. Read here: https://t.co/4c4xwD7wKK

First Ryan Self gave us “How to Relate to Your Moral Inferiors.” Now he’s back with the sequel. The subject? David Litt’s memoir, media bubbles, and what happens when polite dissent gets treated like heresy. Read on The Coddling: https://t.co/mGRfcrcQHj

Talk Hard In 1990, Christian Slater’s Pump Up the Volume gave a generation of kids their first civics lesson wrapped in teenage rebellion. New on The Coddling Substack: Hector Herrera on the film’s enduring free speech lesson. https://t.co/W5lTnR1Z6s

Renegade Canadian academic Doug Mann is back. From Iryna Zarutska’s murder to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he argues corporate media has become an Orwellian Ministry of Truth. His conclusion: It’s time for a media revolution. Read the essay ↓ https://t.co/bThIIDjmuu

A man has been silenced by a bullet where only words should ever matter. Charlie Kirk was murdered on stage at Utah Valley University. His death is not just tragedy—it is a warning about our civilization. Hector Herrera writes: The Bullet and the Word ↓ https://t.co/XXDxyLfHMO

A former Obama speechwriter wrote a memoir about “finding common ground” with his brother-in-law. The book mostly sneers at soy, tattoos, trucks & Joe Rogan. Ryan Self in Coddling on how condescension kills dialogue ↓ https://t.co/mGRfcrcQHj

Free speech. Comedy. Coddling. Culture. Ted & Courtney Balaker joined @GlennLoury on The Glenn Show to talk about their films (Can We Take a Joke?, Troubled, The Coddling of the American Mind), homeschooling, and more. https://t.co/N6cfrAHaQg

Comedy writer Graham Linehan’s arrest upon landing at Heathrow for “inciting violence” via posts on X is yet another warning sign — one of many — of swiftly deteriorating speech rights in the UK. This incident shows yet again why First Amendment-style protections are essential.

Ben Shapiro's new book, Lions and Scavengers, is just out. He argues that the real divide in America isn't red and blue. It's between those who build and those who tear down. Read an exclusive excerpt in @TheFP: https://t.co/kz7TWqKksq

If you still can't believe you can be arrested in the UK for “non-crime hate incidents" like posting something mean on X (who would ever do that?!) @andrewdoyle_com reveals "over 12,000 people are arrested each year" for NCHIs. Theater of the absurd. https://t.co/NipVURZh2s