Author: Michael Ashcraft

By Michael Ashcraft — Imagine a world where childhood, that sacred realm of scraped knees and secret forts, has been quietly hijacked—not by overbearing adults or dystopian overlords, but by a glowing rectangle small enough to fit in your pocket. This is the world Jonathan Haidt unveils in The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Like a detective piecing together a sprawling mystery, Haidt traces the threads of a seismic shift in how kids grow up—a shift that began around 2010 and has left an entire generation more fragile, more isolated,…