I did not know much about US social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, except that he has upset some people who deserve to be upset. So I dug a bit. Haidt works in the field of the psychology of morals, explaining the evolutionary origin of morality, based upon gut feelings, rather than reason. I think his most recent book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018), co-written with Greg Lukianoff, which looks at rising political polarisation on US campuses may be the one that has attracted the wrath of the woke. The conflict between truth seeking and the dictates of social justice are unsolvable in his opinion.
