What Jonathan Haidt is Missing

Technology shapes us. That's worse news than we think.

A few people have asked me what I thought about Jonathan Haidt’s feature essay in The Atlantic on the effect of social media on the last decade of American politics and culture. The short answer is that the essay is excellent, well-researched and convincing on a number of levels. Haidt is a gifted communicator and has been able for a while now to interr…