I agree that the video was hard to watch and consequently, I didn’t watch the entire 24 minutes. Too painful. I really enjoyed the podcast which I listened to in its entirely. I think that Professor Christakis suffered a great injustice. What is also shocking to me is that these attacks against free speech (and reason) are occurring on numerous campuses. As a college student at an “elite” university in the sixties, I participated in numerous protests but they were not about OUR feelings being hurt but about the plight of others. We protested against the war in Vietnam and the violence against blacks and their supporters in the south. Maybe we were really concerned about being drafted or being brutalized by the police, but our social action was never articulated as being to protect ourselves from psychic injuries. We knew we were privileged; we talked about it all the time, and I think most of us felt a little bit guilty about the lives we were leading whlle others suffered in the jungles of Vietnam or in the Jim-Crow South. Some of the students in the video are probably on a free ride at a great elite university. Frankly it angers me that they seem so self-absorbed, and appear to care so little about others who are not so privileged. Any student at Yale, whether the recipient of a free ride or not, is the beneficiary of one of the greatest educations in the world. Last year, I read that the University of Chicago sent a letter to incoming freshmen stating that Chicago would not offer “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” to students there. They warned their students that they would encounter ideas that would make them uncomfortable because, that is the point of college. The “Chicago” letter received a great deal of press; some lauded it and others attacked it. Some suggested that it was not was it seemed. In any case, the University of Chicago seems to be on the right track. Bravo to them! I would hope that other universities would also notify students in advance that they can expect to encounter ideas that might jar them, scare them, or case them pain. That is what college is about. I fully support the university as a forum in which free speech, free thought, and the stimulation of ideas flourishes.