Why does this 40-year-old book by a career academic still hit so hard? - 3 Quarks Daily

Why does this 40-year-old book by a career academic still hit so hard? - 3 Quarks Daily

Laura Miller at Slate: Every so often an eye-opening work of social criticism becomes a surprise bestseller. In 1979, everyone was talking about Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, and in 1987, it was Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. Last year, Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation raised the alarm, encouraging readers outside the parenting-book world to consider what the teenage mental health crisis might mean for th…