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Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
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Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
By Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch
03.27.25 — Parenting
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The Anxious Generation was published one year ago today. Our plan was to promote the book in the spring, take the summer off to recharge, then get to work in September on Jon’s next book, a deeply depressing investigation of technology’s effects on democracy.

But that’s not what happened. Instead, the book catalyzed a movement around the world. Most spec…

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Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist and professor at NYU-Stern. Research on moral psychology as it relates to political polarization, democratic dysfunction, capitalism, and Gen Z.
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