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<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17670.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt]]></description><category domain="17670">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Pay Attention: Essential Advice for the Class of 2026]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/Y1JmD</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Give Your Child Any AI Companions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/dont-give-your-child-an-ai-companion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some dangers are already clear; others won't be known for many years]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Girls vs.Conservative Girls on Social Media]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/RyanSaavedra/status/1990886648834560097</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the liberal girls who really rise first and fastest on depression'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';'. Everyone is worse off, but being conservative seems to root you. You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not as easily pushed into this crazy world. Being in a religious family seems to root you and [conservatism and religion]...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal Girls Spend a Lot More Time on Social Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/11/19/jonathan_haidt_liberal_girls_spend_a_lot_more_time_than_conservative_girls_on_social_media.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the impact of social media on young girls on "Honestly" with host Bari Weiss.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On the Death of Daydreaming]]></title>
							<link>https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was nearly finished writing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Anxious Generation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the summer of 2023, I realized that I had left a gap. The book focused on the collapse of mental health, attention, and socialization of Gen Z'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but again and again, older readers and friends would tell me: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'this is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Is Your Kid on Smartphones]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/353979/this-is-your-kid-on-smartphones</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Q&amp;A with Jonathan Haidt on smartphones, kids today, and what the skeptics get wrong about his argument.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Phones Warped Generation Z]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/24/the-anxious-generation-qa-00147880</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard to believe sometimes that smartphones and social media haven'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t been around forever '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but for one generation, they have. Gen Z doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know a time when they weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t ubiquitous. This cohort also happens to be'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the generation with the worst mental health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-terrible-costs-of-a-phone-based-childhood/ar-BB1jONI0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[I'm Worried About the Boys, Too]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/jonathan-haidt-worried-about-the-boys-too</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've spent years trying to understand the mental health crisis among teenage girls. But both sexes are suffering.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest]]></title>
							<link>https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May 2014, Greg Lukianoff invited me to lunch to talk about something he was seeing on college campuses that disturbed him. Greg is the president of FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), and he has worked tirelessly since 2001 to defend the free speech rights of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Mandatory Anti-Racism Statements Are Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/the-two-fiduciary-duties-of-professors/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the concept of fiduciary duty useful in the academy? To what must professors show such absolute loyalty, such elevated ethics, with no deviations or compromises?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-monomania-is-illiberal-and</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Educational institutions have a duty to oppose monomania and to lead students out of its stultifying embrace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pulling Teens Out of the Smartphone Trap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/opinion/smartphone-iphone-social-media-isolation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Loneliness among students has soared worldwide. It doesn't have to be like that.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dark Psychology of Social Networks]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/r4jHHc</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suppose that the biblical story of Creation were true: God created the universe in six days, including all the laws of physics and all the physical constants that apply throughout the universe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Age of Outrage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/html/age-outrage-15608.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[hat is happening to our country, and our universities? It sometimes seems that everything is coming apart. To understand why, I have found it helpful to think about an idea from cosmology called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the fine-tuned universe.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' There are around 20 fundamental constants in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Policy, Paranoid Parenting Create Fragile Generation]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/10/26/the-fragile-generation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fragile Generation: A Crisis of Resilience on Campus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-fragile-generation#.WbA548iGPIX</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt on the crisis of resilience on campus.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Week's Liberal Witch Hunt]]></title>
							<link>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/05/27/this-weeks-witch-hunt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the violence at Middlebury and Berkeley, and in the aftermath of the faculty mob that coalesced to condemn gender studies professor Rebecca Tuvel, many commentators have begun analyzing the new campus culture of intersectionality as a form of fundamentalist religion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get Beyond Our Tribal Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+Get+Beyond+Tribal+Politics&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=How+to+Get+Beyond+Tribal+Politics&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.399j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Truths About Race on Campus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.wsj.com/articles/hard-truths-about-race-on-campus-1462544543</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After recent protests, universities are scrambling to expand diversity programs that will only heighten tensions. There are better paths to racial justice in higher education]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[People Horrified by What's Going On at Colleges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/02/a-conversation-with-jonathan-haidt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On January 11, John Leo, editor of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Minding the Campus,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' interviewed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, one of the editors of the five-month-old site, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Heterodox Academy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and perhaps the most prominent academic pushing hard for more intellectual diversity on our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Yale Problem Begins in High School]]></title>
							<link>http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begins-in-high-school/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A month before the Yale Halloween meltdown, I had a bizarre and illuminating experience at an elite private high school on the West Coast.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll call it Centerville High. I gave a version of a talk that you can see here, on Coddle U. vs. Strengthen U. (In an amazing coincidence, I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coddling of the American Mind]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something strange is happening at America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Moral Majority]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10583</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Haidt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Haidt is associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia 
                        Political engagement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (31),'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'                         and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' United States domestic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (219).                	
      	              Political engagement,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'                        ...]]></description>
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