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There's No Undoing Tech's Great Rewiring of Childhood

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Psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns that social media harms children but definitive evidence is hard to find. Whatever your views on kids and technology, digital connectivity is now part of childhood.

The book currently topping the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is The Anxious Generation, a jeremiad against social media and its impact on young people. Its thesis is that apps like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have unleashed an epidemic of mental illness among children, preteens, and teenagers. Immediate and extreme measures are required to reverse this deadly trend. The author, NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, has been promoting it everywhere.

At one point in his new book, Haidt expresses unhappiness that hospitals aren’t seeing as many boys show up with shattered limbs, because it means that young males aren’t bulking up with the requisite toughness that will stand them in good stead during adulthood.

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