On this encore episode of the Free Expression Podcast, Gerry Baker speaks with Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of ...

Social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt recently predicted that U.S. schools will have banned smartphones from classrooms by next fall. Haidt, whose recently published book "The Anxious ...

You may remember that Haidt, a professor at NYU and the author of the bestselling book The Anxious Generation, was a part of our "Life You Want" class on the teenage mental health crisis last year.

Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

Haidt: When I started writing The Anxious Generation, I thought it was going to be a story about girls and social media, because that's where we have the most data.

J onathan Haidt says he knows what’s driving the teen mental-health crisis: addictive, distraction-laden, horror-filled apps like Instagram and TikTok. That’s the thesis of the New York ...

The book finds Haidt teaming up with How to Break Up with Your Phone's Catherine Price Available for preorder now, the book is set to arrive on bookshelves Tuesday, Dec. 30 ...

Haidt, who also holds a professorship at NYU’s Stern School of Business, does more than propose a theory. Through reams of data plotted on chart after chart, he makes the case that the advent of the ...

The inspiration for Mr. Youngkin’s order was social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 book, “The Anxious Generation.” ...

Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health? Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

As the first generation raised on social media, Gen Z is also the most anxious, according to Jonathan Haidt’s New York Times bestseller “The Anxious Generation.” Is that really just a coincidence?