Part of the 2017-2018 lecture series, “Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education and American Society,” at Arizona State University.

On Nov. 9, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Righteous Mind" and co-founder of Heterodox Academy, visited Arizona State University to contribute to our discussion this year of free speech on campus in his presentation: America's Escalating Outrage: Why Is it Happening, What Does it Do to Colleges and How can We Reverse It?"

Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is best known for his best-selling book, "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion." Haidt is a social psychologist whose research focuses on morality, its emotional foundations, cultural variations and developmental course. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1985 and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He taught at the University of Virginia from 1995 until 2011.