Haidt's piggy-backing on decades worth of the same argumentation. Turkle's "Reclaiming Conversation," Twenge's iGen, even Carr's "The Shallows" was something of a predecessor to this whole line of identical argumentation. Repeating the same argument through mostly anecdote doesn't make it true!

I'm also thinking about how much all of these books completely whitewash teen experiences with smartphones. None of these books have any nuanced mention of race, socio-economic status, or disability (which I wish the podcast critique had addressed more directly). Gender is discussed, but that's it!