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My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.

Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones

Emma Goldberg nytimes.com

Jonathan Haidt is right when he talks about the sudden switch from play-based to phone-based childhoods and how it destroyed mental health—particularly for young girls. Our childhoods weren’t spent toying with risk and danger, teaching ourselves we could cope with it, learning that it’s baked into life. We had bans on play fighting. Health and... See more

Freya India • Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance - By Freya India - GIRLS

The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,

Jonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

Critically important post from @AbigailShrier on California’s “safety act” (see what they did with the framing). If you’re a parent I recommend getting educated on this topic: Child predators follow a common playbook: target the victim, gain their trust, fill a need, and, crucially, isolate the child... See more

@jason x.com

The death of the public intellectual

substack.com

I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message

Ezra Klein nytimes.com

I was widely respected and liked. I could float among the groups with ease, could stick up for anyone at will (and usually did). But I never belonged to anything in particular, and that is true of all floaters. Also, those girls that do stick by their principles and behave admirably during junior high school are respected, but generally shunned. I