Category Archives: Epidemics

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but Jonathan Haidt’s latest, THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, a must-read for parents and educators, brilliantly captures his two … Continue reading

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry

I first read this book—about the 1918 pandemic that killed somewhere between 21 and 100 million people on the planet—when it first came out, in 2004.  Sixteen years later, when the World Health Organization announced we were officially facing a … Continue reading

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