Jonathan Haidt’s “Stupid America”

The Daily Evolver by Jeff Salzman

Nov 22, 202338:26Society & Culture

Is America really getting stupider? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt makes the case in his influential essay in The Atlantic Magazine titled “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid”. I challen...

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