Feels So Right

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Marilyn Monroe reads at New York’s Ambassador Hotel in March 1955. Photo: Ed Feingersh

This year, the culture got serious about smartphone addiction. Or worrying about it, at least.

Last spring saw the publication of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Haidt was ubiquitous…