A Miscellany For Nanci Griffith's Birthday

“Seductive,” My Ass

This is a perfectly fine review, by Molly Fischer, of some recent books that debate the hypothesis “Young people’s brains are being cooked by smartphones.” I’m not being sarcastic; it’s a good piece. But Fischer does the same thing that everybody who writes about this possibility in any mode other than Full-Blown Panic Mode does: she …