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  • Young People Aren’t Reading Classic Books. 3 Reasons Why That’s a Problem.

    Young People Aren’t Reading Classic Books. 3 Reasons Why That’s a Problem.3

    One thing I wish I would have done more when I was in grade school was read. Granted, I do not recall anyone around me with their nose in a book or suggesting the activity might be enjoyable. The simple fact was that I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Even now, some twenty years

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  • Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?

    Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?3

    Last year a Harvard Youth Poll found 51 percent of Americans ages 18-29 had felt depressed, down, or hopeless at times in the two weeks before responding to the survey. While adults might respond in similar numbers—feeling “down” covers a lot of territory—let’s take the poll at face value and assume that teens and twenty-somethings

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  • Young Minds Are Undermined by Today’s Fashionable Philosophies

    Young Minds Are Undermined by Today’s Fashionable Philosophies0

    Rates of teenage depression and suicide in America are rising. Attempts to explain this increase have centered around ideas that are now pervasive in academia and entertainment media: identity politics, victim-culture, the unearned “self-esteem movement,” and the dreaded post-modernism (as it applies to philosophy and the humanities, not the arts). I contend that a lot

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  • Young Black Americans Not Sold on Biden, Democrats, or Voting

    Young Black Americans Not Sold on Biden, Democrats, or Voting0

    Most political analysts define “swing voters” as those who swing their support from one party to the other between election cycles – determining winners and losers in the process. According to this conventional wisdom, the “swingiest” voters are working-class whites in the Midwest, who supposedly hold the keys to the White House. Meanwhile, by contrast,

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  • Young Americans Suffer From the Burden of Low Moral Expectations

    Young Americans Suffer From the Burden of Low Moral Expectations0

    In 2001, President George W. Bush gave a speech to the NAACP in which, among other items, he decried the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” While he was speaking of how minority students are treated and viewed in the classroom, such sentiments are now true of American society as a whole, especially for young people.

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  • You’re Stupid, So We Are Going to Take Away Your Freedom

    You’re Stupid, So We Are Going to Take Away Your Freedom0

    In a country based on the principle of liberty, should we really contemplate depriving people of freedom because they sometimes don’t make choices experts think are best for them? My title really understates the liberty-depriving philosophy of the nanny state. More accurately, it is: Some people make what we think are bad choices, so we

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