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Jan 9, 2025 | 
afterbabel.com | Jon Haidt
Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether it should step in to block or delay the implementation of a law that would ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. If not blocked, the law will force TikTok to cease operations in the U.S. on January 19, unless its Chinese corporate owner (Bytedance) sells to a buyer not controlled by a foreign adversary. The case hinges entirely on constitutional arguments pertaining to national security and free speech.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Jon Haidt
Amid debates about U.S. international engagement, a new public consultation survey conducted in six swing states by the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation found widespread bipartisan support for the United States continuing to provide military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Scott Klug |Jon Haidt
Klug served in the House of Representatives from 1991 to 1999. He hosts the political podcast “Lost in the Middle: America’s Political Orphans.”All of us have had that moment. An innocent comment over coffee with a friend, at a family dinner or while riding an elevator with a coworker. Everyone is at edge over politics. Nerves are rubbed raw. Civility has seemingly vanished.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Greg Berman |Jon Haidt
Berman is a distinguished fellow of practice at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, co-editor of Vital City, and co-author of "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age." This is the sixth in a series of interviews titled "The Polarization Project."The documentary film “Undivide Us” brings together Americans from across the political spectrum for conversations about abortion, immigration, guns and other controversial issues.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Brian Adams |Danielle Martin |Jon Haidt
As political scientists who study local politics, we wanted to know: Does that same partisanship carry over to city, county and other local elections? Scholars have devoted relatively little attention to local elections, but some academic research suggests that local races, too, have become increasingly partisan.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Deke Copenhaver |Jon Haidt
Copenhaver, a former mayor of Augusta, Ga., hosts “The Changemaker Podcast and is a founding partner of Starts With Us.Negative campaigning is increasing in volume and nastiness every election cycle. Campaigns are based on a “divide and conquer” strategy, pitting citizens against each other. If you ask most political operatives why this is the case, they’ll tell you it’s because it works. It drives donations, volunteer engagement and turnout.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
thefulcrum.us | Greg Berman |Jon Haidt
Berman is a distinguished fellow of practice at The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, co-editor of Vital City and co-author of "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age." This is the third in a series of interviews titled "The Polarization Project."College campuses are often depicted as “ivory towers,” purposefully set apart from the rest of the world so that students and faculty can pursue intellectual inquiry in an unfettered way.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
afterbabel.com | Jon Haidt
The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, has long been a leader on the youth mental health crisis. He wrote a book in 2020 on loneliness (Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World), and in 2023 he issued a landmark report on loneliness.
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May 29, 2024 | 
afterbabel.com | Jon Haidt
When parents are asked to identify their top fears about the safety of their children, what do you think tops the list? According to a survey last year by Safehome.org, it’s not cars, strangers, or any other physical threat; it’s “internet/social media.” That’s not just for parents of teenagers and pre-teens, whose lives seem to revolve around their phones. It’s even true for parents of younger kids, ages 7-9 because every parent sees it coming and few know what to do about it.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
afterbabel.com | Jon Haidt
For centuries, adults have worried about whatever “kids these days” are doing. From novels in the 18th century to the bicycle in the 19th and through comic books, rock and roll, marijuana, and violent video games in the 20th century, there are always those who ring alarms, and there are always those who are skeptics of those alarms.
