What people are saying about us…

• The Guardian. How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?. January, 2026.

• The Telegraph. Can you stop scrolling for a whole minute? Put your attention span to the test. January, 2026.

• Chicago Review of Books. The Friends of Attention Want YOU to Snap Out of It (While You Still Can!). January, 2026.

• The Washington Post. These ‘attention activists’ are here to help you put down your phone. January, 2026.

• The Paris Review. The Great Empty Cup of Attention. January, 2026.

• The Spectator. How big tech companies steal your attention. January, 2026.

• The Observer. The lost art of paying attention. January, 2026.

• The Spectator. How big tech companies steal your attention. January, 2026.

• TeenVogue. College Students Not Reading Is an Issue, So Teachers Are Adjusting How Classes Look. January, 2026.

• Read Your Color. Your RYC Release Report. January, 2026.

• The Ink. WATCH: How to stop human fracking. January, 2026.

• The Telegraph. The books to look forward to in 2026. January, 2026.

• Chicago Review of Books. 12 Must-Read Books of January 2026. January, 2026.

• Englewood Review of Books. New Book Releases – Week of 19 January 2026 – The Friends of Attention, more…. January, 2026.

• LearningWell. Attention Activism with D. Graham Burnett. January, 2026.

• Burned By Books. Attensity!. January, 2026.

• Literary Hub. Lit Hub’s MThost Anticipated Books of 2026. January, 2026.

• Daily Kos. Nonfiction Views: Henry Ford, the Elon Musk of his day, plus the week's new nonfiction. January, 2026.

• LearningWell. Warning: Your Attention is Being Fracked. December, 2025.

• Tusk & Quill. My Week at the School of ‘Radical Attention’. August, 2025.

• The Nation. Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Youth Loneliness Epidemic?. December, 2025.

• Daily Bulldog. An Interview With The Year 2026. December, 2025.

• The New Yorker. Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?. April, 2025.

• The Princetonian. Turning the tide on “human fracking”. September, 2024.

• Winter of the Mind. On the front lines of the attention liberation movement. June, 2024.

• The New Yorker. The Battle for Attention. April, 2024.

• The Nation. The Use of “Attention Capture” Technologies in Our Classrooms Has Created a Crisis. April, 2024.

• Princeton Alumni Weekly. Peter Schmidt ’20 Helped Launch a School to Cultivate Attention. November, 2023.

  Podcasts:

• The New Books Network. The Friends of Attention, “Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement” (Crown, 2026). January, 2026.

• Factually! with Adam Conover. You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D.Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt. January, 2026.

• Lapham Quarterly. Episode 21: The Friends of Attention. January, 2026.

• Keen on America. Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention. January, 2026.

• Shaping Sciences. D.Graham Burnett on the Philosophy of Science, the Crisis of Human Fracking, and the Need for Attention Sanctuaries. November, 2025.

• Hard Fork. A.I School is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education. September, 2025.

• Stay Human from the Artificiality Institute. D.Graham Burnett: Attention and much more. February, 2025.

• The Endangered Mind. How technology is hacking your brain with Princeton professor D.Graham Burnett. February, 2025.

• The Ezra Klein Show. Your Mind is Being Fracked. May, 2024.

Our Publications

• The New York Times. How the Struggle to Defeat the Nazis Paved the Way for the Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention. January, 2026.

• Psychology Today. How Therapists Can Heal Our Attention. January, 2026.

• UnHerd. The illusions of diversity We are all slaves to moneyworld now. January, 2026.

• The World in Time. Blessing the Sow. January, 2026.

• Psychology Today. The Healing Power of Real Human Attention. January, 2026.

• The Public Domain Review. Cybernetic Attention. January, 2026.

• e-flux. Machinic Attention and Its Adversaries: A Manifesto. January, 2026.

• Inside Higher Education. The Classroom as an Attention Sanctuary. January, 2026.