Tech & Society Lab | Popular Press and After Babel

Here is a comprehensive list of popular press articles.

1.  Iyer, R., Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2026, July 18). What the world should learn from Australia’s social media law. TIME.
2. Haidt, J. (2025, November 25). Jonathan Haidt: The devil’s plan to ruin the next generation. The Free Press. 
3. Skenazy, L., Rausch, Z., & Haidt, J. (2025, August 4). What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones. The Atlantic. 
4. Haidt, J., Johnson, W., & Rausch, Z. (2025, June 18). We don’t have to give in to the smartphones. The New York Times. 
5. Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2025, March 27). Taking back childhood from phones–finally. The Free Press.
6. Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2024, November 26). It’s time to make the internet safer for kids. Wired.
7. Haidt, J., & Johnson, W. (2024, September 17). Gen Z has regrets. The New York Times.
8. Rausch, Z., Haidt, J., & Torres, L. (2024, September 12). Social media companies’ worst argument. The Atlantic.
9. Rausch Z. (2024, June 6). Why are religious teens happier than their secular peers? The Boston Globe.
10. Haidt, J. (2024, March 13). End the phone-based childhood now. The Atlantic.
11. Haidt, J. (2023, June 6). Get phones out of schools now. The Atlantic. 
     

The After Babel Substack is a free weekly newsletter where we make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond. We publish our major findings, introduce current projects, and feature articles from many excellent guest writers. Here is a selection of posts from After Babel. 

1. Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2026, January 14). Mountains of evidence. After Babel.
2. McClean, A., & Lebwohl, J. (2025, October 6). Does social media use at one time predict teen depression at a later time? After Babel.
3. Roberts, Y. P., & Haidt, J. (2025, September 22). Free play and mental health: What we know, what we don’t. After Babel.
4. Lebwohl, J., Park, E., & Rausch, Z. (2025, July 29). The achievement gap we’re not talking about. After Babel.
5. Sippel, B., & Rausch, Z. (2025, July 21). It’s not just a game anymore. After Babel.
6. Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2025, April 16). Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale. After Babel.
7. Stein, D. (2025, April 11).  A flawed absolution for smartphones. After Babel.
8. Haidt, J., Rausch, Z., & McClean, A. (2025, February 13). Flaws in a recent Lancet study on phone use in schools. After Babel.
9. Haidt, J., & Rausch, Z. (2025, January 9). TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. After Babel.
10. Stein, D. (2024, September 29). The fundamental flaws of the only meta-analysis of social media reduction experiments (and why it matters), Part 3. After Babel.
11. Rausch, Z. & Haidt, J. (2024, September 10). The fundamental flaws of the only meta-analysis of social media reduction experiments (and why it matters), Part 2. After Babel.
12. Rausch, Z. & Haidt, J. (2024, August 29). The fundamental flaws of the only meta-analysis of social media reduction experiments (and why it matters), Part 1. After Babel.