Inez Feltscher-Stepman offers a bleak view of youth in The American Mind. Kids are on a mission to “decolonize” the West and undermine their country, are increasingly anti-Semitic and rationalize violence as “vengeance of the oppressed”. Millions of them will soon begin moving into positions of leadership, and having to pay income tax, Stepman predicts, will not make them more conservative.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.