The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

by Gad Saad

The driving motto of the university is no longer the pursuit of truth but the coddling of hurt feelings.

If knowledge is power, then these social media giants are nearly all-powerful when they decide which information we can have and whether we can be allowed a social media platform.

Occasionally being offended is the price that one pays for living in a truly free society.

There are countless issues of substantive political, societal, and economic importance where university students stand to benefit greatly from being exposed to a heterogeneity of perspectives.

Children are meant to be protected and cherished in the privacy of a family. They are not meant to be virtue-signaling social-justice pawns for impressing progressive friends.

today, we are creating a generation of young people who are too brittle to handle opposing opinions, and who fold into a fetal position of feigned victimhood when confronted by so-called “microaggressions,” a concept that lacks scientific validity.12

A fundamental feature of an individual’s civic duty in a free society is to be an informed citizen on issues of societal import.