Twenty-three years ago, David Brooks published in The Atlantic a long essay based on interviews with Princeton undergraduates. He found the students busy: overscheduled, achievement-oriented models of meritocratic success. They were “extraordinarily bright, morally earnest, and . . . . Continue Reading »
It was surreal. President Biden began his State of the Union speech by invoking the Nazi threat. More than eighty years ago, Biden reminded us, Franklin Roosevelt rallied the nation, as “Hitler was on the march,” and “freedom and democracy were under assault.” Today, the president warned, . . . . Continue Reading »
The sexual revolution began not with the Boomers but with their elders. How would it have been possible, after all, had not biologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), a member of the Greatest Generation, followed the advice of Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) to stop experimenting with rabbits and . . . . Continue Reading »
The rising generation of leaders knows next to nothing about the great thinkers who have shaped our history. Who can blame them? They have been educated during the Great Forgetting. We have embarked on a remarkable experiment: a society governed by those who have little knowledge of the humanities, . . . . Continue Reading »
The spirit of Mephistopheles is truly seductive, as Goethe well knew. Thankfully, however, there is still hope. Continue Reading »
Growth in gratitude to God is reflected not by having ever more spontaneous feelings of gratitude to God when life goes well, but rather by having an ever greater ability to live non-resentfully even when it does not. Continue Reading »
Dear Gen Z brethren: Please stop confusing the blogosphere with reality, and please read what Vatican II actually taught. Continue Reading »
At root, Gen Z’s obsession with identity is a perverted but genuine pursuit of truth in a world that obscures it. Continue Reading »
While insisting that digital learning was essential for the rest of us, Silicon Valley elites made sure to vigilantly keep their own children away from the addictive products they peddled. Continue Reading »
Jeremy S. Adams joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Hollowed Out: A Warning About America's Next Generation. Continue Reading »
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