The Case Against The Phone-Based Childhood

The Many Lines of Evidence That Social Media is Not Safe For Teens

How to address those who still claim that this is all just a moral panic.

Sep 23 • Nathan Witkin, Carmen Lim, Zach Rausch, and Jon Haidt

Are Phone-Free Schools Working?

Here is the evidence on all sides, across multiple outcomes.

Sep 17 • Carmen Lim, Zach Rausch, Emma Park, and Jon Haidt

Does Early Access to Social Media Harm Later Learning? New Evidence From Italy

Students who got social media accounts by age 12 progressed less than those who waited until age 14.

Aug 11 • Marco Gui and Giovanni Abbiati

Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years

A chapter from historian David Courtwright’s magnificent book, The Age of Addiction, helps us understand how we got here and what’s likely to come.

Jun 8

Phones at School: Less Learning, More Loneliness

Laptops aren't great either.

Mar 17 • Jean M. Twenge

EdTech is Borrowing Zuckerberg's Playbook

The "No Evidence of Harm" Refrain is a Familiar Deflection

Feb 26 • Jared Cooney Horvath

Mountains of Evidence

Two new projects catalogue research on social media’s many harms to adolescents. Some of the strongest evidence comes from Meta.

Jan 14 • Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch

How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt

Platforms profit from children’s attention while parents absorb the blame

Dec 18, 2025 • Daniel Frost, Sarah Coyne, and Jane Shawcroft

Meta’s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem

A newly unsealed court filing shows the tech giant connected children to predators on a scale much larger than previously understood

Dec 3, 2025 • Nathan Witkin

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.

Dec 1, 2025 • Jon Haidt

Don’t Give Your Child Any AI Companions

Some dangers are already clear; others won’t be known for many years.

Nov 24, 2025 • Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch

Does Social Media Use at One Time Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time?

Reviewing longitudinal evidence

Oct 6, 2025 • Alec McClean and Jake Lebwohl

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