Let me talk, if I may, about my emerging love-Haidt relationship. Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist who has an “ethical leadership” chair at New York University’s business school, is inarguably one of the most important American intellectuals alive, and his new book The Anxious Generation is poised to become an absolutely decisive coup in political and social agenda-setting. Haidt’s new thesis is that electronic social media are “rewiring” the brains of young people and creating enormous amounts of observable mental illness in the highly networked parts of the world. If you’re a parent, this is a discussion you are already having; and if you’re a worried parent, and who isn’t, Haidt’s arguments aren’t likely to make you less worried.