I feel like like all the trains in Italy cancel

lato I once got stuck in pizza when they canceled the trains yeah it was a great

opportunity for me to tell my kids about the failures of European social

welfare capitalism.

Oh, good.

Kids love that.

From New York Times Opinion, I'm Ross Douthit.

I'm Michelle Kottle.

I'm Carlos Lozada. And I'm Lydia Polottel. I'm Carlos Lozada and I'm Lydia Polgreen. And this is matter of opinion.

Whoa! We're reunited. We're all recording in the same room together. I could almost touch all of my

co-host right now. And then Carlos would Carl H.

But I will not because because we're talking about disconnection virtual alienation we're going to talk

about kids and smartphones don't don't so there is a lot of evidence that kids, American kids, maybe kids around the developed world

are not doing so well over the last 10 years, not just in a sort of kids being

kids way but there is a real shift in rates of depression,

anxiety, mental illness diagnoses, suicide and suicidality, all of these things are up for young people.

And so are hours spent on smartphones.

And there's a widely circulated theory, seemingly plausible, but also hotly contested,

that screens and social media are responsible for making teenagers especially unusually unhappy.

So this is a big problem since screens and smartphones are sort of the defining technologies

of our age and I'm hoping we can resolve this problem here today in a podcast.

Maybe not, but maybe we can debate some solutions responses and talk about what might

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