RSS

Susan Linn

Susan Linn is author of The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World and founder of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.

ap320850657612.jpg.jpe

Joshua Boucher/The Texarkana Gazette via AP

The new mobile game poses critical question about privacy, commercialism, and children’s attachment to screens.   Read more

Health and Social Policy

Jerry Falwell was right: the Teletubbies are insidious, but not because they’re insinuating dubious ideas into the minds of one-year olds. The program is the culmination of PBS’s long drift toward commercialization.  Read more

Books, Arts and Culture

Features