NR Daily: If Millennials Won’t Stand Up for Themselves, Who Will?

In 2001, David Brooks penned an Atlantic cover story titled "The Organization Kid." He observed that, unlike previous generations, those in college between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 "felt no compelling need to rebel." Not only did they submit to authority, they seemed to "admire it," he wrote. They wanted to join the system, not tear it down. Two protracted wars, a deep recession, and a Trump victory later, that admiration has been tempered and then some. Several polls have shown that a majority of Millennials, those born from the mid 80s to the late 90s, rejects capitalism. Socialism, a YouGov survey found, is viewed more favorably among the young ...

August 05 2017

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