Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Arthur C. Brooks, a Harvard professor who teaches a popular course on happiness, talks about why social media is making some young people less happy. He spoke in an interview for "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations." This interview was recorded August 5 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC.
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