The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. Penguin, 2024. 400 pages. Hardcover; $30.00. ISBN: 9780593655030. *"They don't make 'em like they used to." That old saying came to mind more than once as I read Haidt's masterful new book, about how significant changes to American childhood in the last decade and a half have led to a recent explosion in depression, anxiety, and other "internalizing" disorders, especially among those under the age of 30. Well-known social psychologist Haidt lays the blame for our national decline in mental health squarely at the feet of technology, in an account that Christian scholars (and parents) working…