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"The Perpetual Adolescent," by Joseph Epstein | The Weekly Standard March 15, 2004

zorprime1985 Sep 25, 2007 21:18

I highly recommend reading this.
The Perpetual Adolescent
From the March 15, 2004 issue: And the triumph of the youth culture.
by Joseph Epstein
03/15/2004, Volume 009, Issue 26

WHENEVER ANYONE under the age of 50 sees old newsreel film of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak of 1941, he is almost certain to be brought up by the fact that nearly ( Read more... )

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"What's Wrong with the Kids?" by Kay S. Hymowitz | City Journal Winter 2000

zorprime1985 Sep 17, 2007 21:52

Not all is well in suburbia.

What’s Wrong with the Kids?
After Columbine, the whole nation- egged on by the press- is asking this question. The answer is disquieting. Kay S. Hymowitz
Winter 2000
Nine months ago, two seemingly ordinary boys from normal middle-class families walked into their high school in an affluent suburb of Denver and shot and ( Read more... )

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"How We Mate," by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead | City Journal Summer 1999

zorprime1985 Sep 13, 2007 20:31

I'd not have known who the "Masters of the Universe" were if I had not read Tom Wolfe's essay "Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American's World," published in 2000 in his book Hooking Up.

How We Mate
Kiss love and marriage good-bye. Today it's hook up, break up, and get even. Is everybody happy? Barbara Dafoe ( Read more... )

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