“I’ve observed my toddler, barely old enough to walk, confidently swiping her way through an iPad.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”— Jean M. Twenge, theatlantic.com
“steelmanning makes you a better person. It makes you more charitable, forcing you to assume, at least for a moment, that the people you’re arguing with, much as you ferociously disagree with them or even dislike them, are people who might have something to teach you. It makes you more compassionate,…”— Chana Messinger, theatlantic.com
“Although women as a group have made substantial gains in wages, educational attainment, and prestige over the past three decades, the economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson have shown that women are less happy today than their predecessors were in 1972, both in absolute terms and relative to…”— Anne-Marie Slaughter, theatlantic.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com