Books We Argue With

Four books, four difficult questions: what are phones doing to childhood, who holds Big Tech accountable, why have societies forgotten how to build, and how seriously should we fear AI? This edition of Margin Notes reads Jonathan Haidt, Sarah Wynn-Williams, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares as provocations rather than verdicts. For readers who want better questions, not easier answers.