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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
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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