Reclaiming Childhood in an Online World with Jonathan Haidt and Bari Weiss
Presented by Uber
October 22 at 7 p.m.
Ambassador Theatre in New York, NY
Tickets: On sale here
One of the most urgent questions of our time is how smartphones and social media are fundamentally altering the lives of our children. Few voices have been more influential on this front than Jonathan Haidt. His best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, helped ignite a nationwide movement to decrease kids’ use of smartphones and instead encourage them to spend time in the real world. In the year since the book’s debut, all 50 states have either passed phone-free school bills or are actively discussing them.
But legislation can go only so far. In a world awash in screens, parents are asking How do I restrict social media use? How can we give kids a childhood where they’re kept safe, but learn resilience? In our digital society, how can I make sure I’m giving my kid the tools to become a healthy adult?
Those are exactly the kinds of questions we’ll discuss with Jonathan Haidt.
Join Jonathan Haidt, renowned psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation, with Bari Weiss for a conversation about how to reclaim childhood in 2025.
Would America Be Safer Without the Second Amendment?
November 5 at 7 p.m.
Downtown Chicago
Tickets: https://www.fineartsbuilding.com/events/the-freedom-debates/
In partnership with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Our last debate of the year!
The tension between freedom and safety sits at the heart of this live debate where we will ask: Would America be safer without the Second Amendment?
We have two more formidable voices to face off. Dana Loesch, former NRA spokeswoman and host of The Dana Show, has been one of the movement’s most visible champions. Her 2014 bestseller, Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America, made her a household name and one of the most prominent gun rights advocates in the country.
On the other side is Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s foremost lawyers and constitutional scholars and a passionate advocate for gun control. To Dershowitz, the Second Amendment is “absurd”—a relic that, if he could rewrite the Constitution, he would eliminate altogether.
Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, will moderate. Join us to dig into whether the right to bear arms today is at odds with the common good, or if it is as necessary now as it was in 1789.
