This year, my home state of Florida joined several other states in banning youth access to social media. This is a phenomenon known as moral panic; new media or technology touches off an extreme fear ...

The day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I was teaching a college class on science, religion and magic. Our class was comparing the Salem witch trials of the 1690s with the McCarthy hearings of ...

Haidt argues that smartphones and social media have "rewired childhood" and made kids more anxious and depressed. My son agrees. He brings Haidt's argument to schools. Max Stossel's nonprofit, "Social ...

Tue, July 30, 2024 at 12:51 AM UTC Churches weren’t the only ones complaining. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X, also panned the depiction of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The aim of the class was to better understand the concept of moral panics, which are ...