16.12.04

FOURTH TURNING ALERT? Best of the Web:
[A] new youth movement isn't entirely out of the question. After all, lots of these kids will be going to college in the next decade, and those who've been raised in conservative homes and communities may be shocked to confront the authoritarian leftism that reigns on campus. Interesting times are ahead, perhaps, for left-wing academics.
Might be wise to read the entire article, however:
These young people don't make good employees, [Edina psychologist Andrea] Johnson said, because they have little respect for bosses, chafe at authority in the workplace and resent that they have to work at all. "They've been able to manipulate parents in a way that they can't manipulate outside," Johnson said.
Put another way, the authoritarian leftists are more likely to be called out for awarding low grades whether or not those low grades are for saying nice things about capitalists or Republicans. (Or there will be gains from trade between administrators with enrollment driven budgets and indulged youngsters?)

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