Why he belongs here
Haidt’s work on moral psychology offers a useful lens for understanding why intelligent people can reason toward radically different moral worlds and why groups become certain of their own virtue.
The Anxious Generation goes further, arguing that the shift from play-based to phone-based childhood is a major cause of the deterioration in adolescent mental health.
Read the argument and the argument about the argument
That causal claim is contested. Some researchers argue that the evidence is far less decisive than the public narrative suggests. Others argue that converging evidence now supports meaningful population-level effects.
Good. Read both.
Censored.dk should use Haidt as a case study in how serious public reasoning ought to work: understand the strongest version, inspect the methods, compare alternative explanations and resist turning disagreement into a personality test.