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Parent-aged adults’ drug-overdose ER crises doubled since 2010 to a record 5.5 million cases in 2024
Yet, authorities keep insisting it’s just smartphones, TikTok, and social media making teens depressed.
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Generation Z is not bringing some “new” terror of social-media-driven “nihilistic violent extremism”
Today’s much rarer young killers are scarier than yesterday’s larger numbers? You’ve got to be joking.
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Which murders matter?
Mass and celebrity shootings become even more tragic when authorities and commentators exploit them to inflame vicious campaigns targeting powerless…
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Here’s a case that might counter my arguments about youth and social media
We all love love love “critical thinking"... in theory. We almost never practice it – and never on youth and social media issues.
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Young men and violence are generating double the lies
Why are progressives who champion diversity and multiculturalism sabotaging multiracial Gen Z when they should be touting young people's stunningly…
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Progressives indulge irrational hostility to sabotage young people’s rights and any hope of a future
Right-wingers don’t care what I say. So, I direct my ineffectual rage at progressives: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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September 2025

Psychology professor Chris Ferguson demolishes the media’s latest “ringing endorsement” of school cellphone bans
The Economist-hyped study actually found cellphone bans brought “no significant changes in overall student well-being, academic motivation, digital…
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Leftist commentators: Stop your dangerous demagoguery demonizing “young White men”
Progressive podcasters’ escalating vilifications against young White men following Charlie Kirk’s shooting are as factless and deranged as MAGA…
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The one thing post-Kirk-assassination MAGAs and Leftists agree on is idiotic and cruel
Left-Right culture warriors only care about the tiny number of school shooters and assassins they can deplore as internet-radicalized “young men”
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Assassinations, unmentionable dead kids, and mass unpersoning
“Who is granted humanity and who isn’t exposes the miserable character of our age.” - columnist/podcaster Owen Jones after right-wing celebrity Charlie…
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The “teen suicides” and tragedies we don’t care about, Part 2
If a teenager’s murder, suicide, or overdose can superficially be blamed on social media, young peers, or AI, authorities and media erupt. The other…
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The murdered kids we don’t care about, Part 1
America’s response to tragic murders of children follows a rigid rule: obsession with rare, easily deplored cases versus complete indifference to…
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