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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis
Mar 9, 2023 • 
Jon Haidt
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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
Feb 22, 2023 • 
Jon Haidt
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
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A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
Apr 22, 2024 • 
Freya India
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The Mass Trauma of Porn
What have we done?
Jun 4 • 
Freya India
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On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
May 5 • 
Christine Rosen
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Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camera Man
“Her need for me to catalogue her life is slowly draining my soul"
May 29, 2024 • 
Freya India
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Aren’t You Lonely?
Friendship has become another joyless thing to do on a screen
Jul 5, 2024 • 
Freya India
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On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
How social media makes us worse people
May 14, 2024 • 
Jon Haidt
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Freya India
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On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
Nov 12, 2024 • 
Jared Cooney Horvath
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
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TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
Jan 9 • 
Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
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TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
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The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools
Sophie Winkleman lays out the reasons why screen-based schooling is interfering with education and harming children’s development
Feb 27 • 
Jon Haidt
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Sophie Winkleman
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Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus
Chapter 3 of The Coddling explains how the oppressor/victim mindset created fertile ground for hate
Dec 21, 2023 • 
Jon Haidt
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