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By Bari Weiss
09.02.25 — Education
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American schools will become wholly different places this academic year. That’s because over half of U.S. states have instituted smartphone bans, 22 of them during 2025 alone.

There are a lot of reasons for this change. But for our money, the biggest one of all is named Jonathan Haidt.

Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, articulated for parents, policym…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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