Two articles last weekend made me feel sorry for American young people. We in the anti-woke brigade can be awfully hard on kids. But having been born in the 20th century turns out to have been a stroke of good fortune.
On Sunday, the New York Times ran a feature about soaring mental illness in American teenagers.

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