*Johnathan Haidt voice* "Kids these days need to get off their phones and spend more time out of the house."

So deeply disappointing.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes. The evidence is equ...

I enjoyed this, and he mentions Candace Odgers concerns about causality www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Anticipatory Anxiety: Generation Anxiety

To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...

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Perfectly put 😢

Just came to share this, too! A very worthwhile and dispiriting read. How does this ever get resolved?

Spot on. And the ability to know whether something truly needs to be done or you just want to exert control. (A lesson I don’t always get right)

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/o...

Opinion | The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.

There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.

Right? Her writing on trans lives has been excellent, too.