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October 2025

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it
The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically.
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Why do teenaged girls have such low rates of suicide and drug death?
Teenaged girls report much more sadness than boys or grownups. Yet girls are vastly safer from suicide and self-inflicted death. What are we missing…
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Ill-considered social-media bans endanger millions of teenage girls whose online connections help them deal with parents’ skyrocketing…
Surprising Centers for Disease Control numbers show teenage girls, especially those with drug/alcohol abusing parents, have LOWER rates of suicide and…
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Parent-aged adults’ drug-overdose ER crises doubled since 2010 to a record 5.5 million cases in 2024
Yet, authorities keep insisting it’s just smartphones, TikTok, and social media making teens depressed.
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Generation Z is not bringing some “new” terror of social-media-driven “nihilistic violent extremism”
Today’s much rarer young killers are scarier than yesterday’s larger numbers? You’ve got to be joking.
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Which murders matter?
Mass and celebrity shootings become even more tragic when authorities and commentators exploit them to inflame vicious campaigns targeting powerless…
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Here’s a case that might counter my arguments about youth and social media
We all love love love “critical thinking"... in theory. We almost never practice it – and never on youth and social media issues.
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Young men and violence are generating double the lies
Why are progressives who champion diversity and multiculturalism sabotaging multiracial Gen Z when they should be touting young people's stunningly…
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Progressives indulge irrational hostility to sabotage young people’s rights and any hope of a future
Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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September 2025

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