The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness “The shift in kids’ energy and attention from the physical world to the virtual one, Haidt shows, ...

Is the current wave of concern about smartphones and social media just another moral panic, like the ones that arose in response to radio, television, and comic books? Or is the new "phone-based ...

Jonathan Haidt has long promoted the idea of a play-based childhood and not a phone-based one. The NYU Stern School of Business professor writes in his bestselling book "The Anxious Generation" that ...