It’s that time of year again, when we find ourselves making the journey home or to the houses of loved ones to gather for The Great Feast. Thanksgiving. Some of those ones are harder to love than others, however, especially during these trying times.

A 2023 study found that excessive mobile phone use harms mental health partially because it disrupts sleep.  When students get hooked on their phones and social media, they sleep poorly and that sleep deficit leads to anxiety and depression.  This emotional drain weakens our ability to think critically, empathize, or even notice injustice. 

Aside from the righteousness of its cause, one of the lessons we can take from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is how carefully planned, disciplined, and visually powerful its protests were.  These were never spontaneous eruptions—they were thoughtfully and meaningfully orchestrated actions, aimed not only at resisting injustice but also at opening and ultimately winning over the hearts and minds of the broader public.    Today, as movements like the No Kings and anti-I.C.E. protests...