The Anxious Generation is Here; So Too Private Cops at Berkeley and a $100k Tuition at Vanderbilt

A Shortstack that’s a little long, but with good headline action

External Orders

“First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones”

It’s not often that I steal an entire headline from a source’s original piece, but this one, from the digital version of The New York Times’ March 23 issue is too good.  And the subtitle is equally good:  informative, juicy, succinct: “The N.Y.U. professor Jonathan Haidt became a favorite in Silicon Valley for his work on what he called the ‘coddling’ of young people. Now, he has an idea for fixing Gen Z.”  Takeaway their smartphones—or is it too late? Reporter Emma Goldberg sums up Haidt’s “canon” as “a guide to changing yourself” and lists  books (including “The Righteous Mind,” 2012, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” 2018, and, just published, “The Anxious Generation,”). It was “Coddling,” says Goldberg, which “shot [Haidt] to the center of a debate that for years preoccupied opinion writers, blue check accounts on Twitter and everybody’s dad.” He has been making the rounds prior to the new book’s publication, including a story in The Atlantic called End the phone-based childhood now, and, on a podcast with Bary Weiss, compared the current global chaos to the post Tower of Babel world, suggesting “We may never again be able to understand each other.”

Sources

First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones (New York Times)
End the phone-based childhood now (Atlantic)
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid (Honestly with Barry Weiss)

Further Reading

‘The Anxious Generation’ Review: Apps, Angst and Adolescence  (Wall Street Journal)
Parents have a crucial role to play in restoring childhood in America (New York Times)
Why Jonathan Haidt Is ‘Wildly Optimistic’ About Gen Z (New York Times)

Shortstack: Permission to plagiarize, Twilight of the Wonks, and that $100k Tuition

Don’t Let Our Broken Politics Mangle Our Faith (New York Times)
Colleges Struggle To Cope With Increasing Number of Students Using AI To Do Their Work for Them  (NY Sun)
Student Aid March Madness  (Wall Street Journal)
The Triumph of ‘Equity’ Over ‘Equality’ (Chronicle of Higher Education)
A Harvard dishonesty researcher was accused of fraud. Her defense is troubling.  (Vox)
Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?  (New York Times)
Berkeley Lets Loose an Antisemitic Mob  (Wall Street Journal) 
U.C. Berkeley Parents Hired Private Security to Patrol Near Campus (New York Times)
Student Activism Is Integral to the Mission of Academe (Chronicle of Higher Education)
How the SAT Changed My Life  (New York Times)   
Twilight of the Wonks  (The Tablet)      
Permission to Plagiarize  (Independent Institute) 
Michigan’s New Protest Policy Is a Scandal (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Activist Professors at Columbia and Barnard Are Botching Free Speech (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Beware AI euphoria  (Financial Times)  
It's Time for a Re-invitation Revolution  (RealClear Education)
Faculty freedoms get tested at UC (Politico)