Jonathan Haidt on How Smartphones Fuel The Anxious Generation
Showing 4 The Anxious Generation videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the bestselling book The Anxious Generation, argues that children who went through puberty while using smartphones and social media developed differently from earlier generations, citing declining mental health, shrinking attention spans, and falling educational outcomes that track closely with the timing of smartphone adoption starting around 2012. Haidt says his push to get phones banned in schools has been gaining traction despite skepticism from researchers like Chris Ferguson, who compares the concern to past moral panics over rock music and video games. A separate video captures Charlie Kirk sharing his personal reading list with members of his show, recommending books including Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and works by C.S. Lewis, in a segment unrelated to Haidt's research on children and technology.