Spring 2026 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series by:
Jonathan Haidt
Author, The Anxious Generation
Professor, New York University Stern School of Business

Lecture title:
Life After Babel: Democracy and Human Development in the Fractured, Lonely World That Technology Gave Us

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About the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture Series: This lecture series was established in 1957 to honor the late Karl Taylor Compton, who served as president of MIT from 1930 to 1948 and as chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1948 to 1954. The lecture series gives the MIT community direct contact with the important ideas of our times and with people who have contributed much to modern thought. 

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The Compton Lecture is open to members of the MIT community.

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