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Abortion rights activists rally outside of the US Supreme Court after the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade. (Stefani Reynolds via Getty Images)
We are a decade into the largest epidemic of adolescent mental illness ever recorded. It’s time we started treating social media like automobiles and firearms.
By Jonathan Haidt
03.13.23 — Culture and Ideas
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It’s a kind of miracle to write one book that changes the way people understand the world and their place in it. My friend Jonathan Haidt has written two of them: The Righteous Mind and his 2018 bestseller, cowritten by Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind.

Now he has launched a Substack, After Babel, to make sense of the “momentous sociolog…

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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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