Seth Leibsohn: As Commencement Season Closes
Townhall Review | Conservative Commentary On Today's News
Salem Podcast Network
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
With the end of commencement season, it is worth considering what advice a generation of youth more in need of sober and serious advice than at any other time in our history should hear.
Professor Jonathan Haidt has pointed out, having given our children smartphones, we are now engaged in the largest uncontrolled experiment humanity has ever performed on its own children. Major corporations now spend billions of dollars. Their primary mission? Getting as many children as glued to screens for as long as possible. Humanity is being stolen from our youth. At great costs and great prices.
Former Senator and university president Ben Sasse, diagnosed with cancer, expected to die this year, is giving every audience he can his final lessons about life.
It is as beautiful as it is selfless.
Watch his 60 Minutes interview.
Everything we need to know about life, and how to live meaningfully, is there. His main concern? “These super devices in our pockets that have distracted us from some of the most fundamental human activities and aspirations of life.”
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| 0:00.0 | Your personal information is being sold online right now. Not by hackers, but by data brokers. |
| 0:06.8 | Companies you've never heard of collect your details and sell them. Hundreds of these sites gather |
| 0:11.7 | your phone number, home address, relatives information, and browsing activity. Once your data is |
| 0:17.6 | out there, it spreads fast. That's why scam calls know your name, and strangers can look you up in seconds. |
| 0:24.8 | Opting out manually takes hours per site. |
| 0:27.7 | With no guarantee, it stays gone. |
| 0:30.1 | Ora does it for you. |
| 0:31.6 | They automatically find your information, send removal requests to over 200 data broker sites, |
| 0:37.1 | and continuously monitor to ensure it stays completely gone. |
| 0:41.4 | Because your data can be relisted at any time. |
| 0:44.8 | ORA lets you see exactly where and when your data was found and removed. |
| 0:49.1 | Try Aura for free at Aura.com slash safe. |
| 0:53.3 | That's A-U-R-A.com slash safe to try aura for free. |
| 1:00.2 | This is Seth Leibson for townhall.com. With the end of commencement season, it is worth |
| 1:04.7 | considering what advice a generation of youth more in need of sober and serious advice than |
| 1:09.3 | at any other time in our history should hear. |
| 1:11.6 | Professor Jonathan Haight has pointed out, having given our children's smartphones, we are now |
| 1:15.8 | engaged in the largest uncontrolled experiment humanity has ever performed on its own children. |
| 1:21.2 | Major corporations now spend billions of dollars, their primary mission, getting as many children |
| 1:26.3 | as glued to screens for as long as possible. |
| 1:29.1 | Humanity is being stolen from our youth at great costs and great prices. |
| 1:33.6 | Former Senator and University President Ben Sass, diagnosed with cancer, expected to die this year, |
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