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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis
 • Jon Haidt
The Mass Trauma of Porn
What have we done?
 • Freya India
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational
 • Jon Haidt
A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
 • Freya India
The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation
I asked ChatGPT how it would destroy America’s youth. Its answers were unsettling — and all too familiar.
 • Jon Haidt
We Are The Slop
Your life is my background noise
 • Freya India
On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
 • Christine Rosen
Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man
“Her need for me to catalogue her life is slowly draining my soul"
 • Freya India
You Have To Be Human
I realize now that I want to be real
 • Freya India
Aren’t You Lonely?
Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen
 • Freya India
It’s Not Just a Game Anymore
How new monetization models changed gaming, and what parents need to know
 • Bennett Sippel and Zach Rausch
On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
How social media makes us worse people
 • Jon Haidt and Freya India
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