A short and interesting piece.

The Real World
. . . without a TV screen Theodore Dalrymple
11 July 2003
Just as city-bred people find themselves surprised and alarmed by the intensity of natural darkness in the countryside, so many young people now feel uneasy, almost to the point of agitation, when confronted with silence. Without an incessant ( Read more... )

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... )