. >> host: from your book "primal screams" you mention the allison stanger charles murray incident in middlebury college in "primal screams". >> guest: yes, we need to talk about the air rationalism out there that we see among the inflamed young and particularly among followers of identity politics. this has nothing to do with an intellectual disagreement with the speaker, this has everything to do with an unbound kind of derangement, that the state these students get themselves into. in the case of charles murray and allison stanger, if we reduce what happened at middlebury to plain english, a bunch of able-bodied college students attacked a 70 plus-year-old man and sent his hostess on campus, a middle-aged professor, a woman, to the hospital with an injury. how does this happen? the answer goes back to some of what i write about, people are very disconnected from one another. they are not being socialized, many of them, in their families or by other institutions like religion and so they are arriving on campus is gravitating into identity politics and unraveling as a result. this is

to reality so it's this reality we should be concerned about. >> with the charles murray and allison stanger into the there is a case where her presser stanger didn't necessarily agree with charles murray intellectually. wanted to have this dialogue and conversation from the speaker. >> it that was especially frightening but she was just a facilitator in the room. from primal scream's quote what's happening on campuses and elsewhere today is not nearly as pseudo-politics of sf-gard. it's all pat: , allal the time served up with more than a smidgen of violence. >> it's no secret that mental illness has been rising among the young. he kindly referred to the first book i accomplished home alone america which is about young people about children and adolescents and there's a whole chapter in the about what we could see already 20 years ago whichy was that the rise in anxiety and stress and pat: and depression especially was real, that therapists didn't think this was an artifact. they thought the young people that they were seeing were increasingly exhibiting these kinds of traits. that trend de