Late last month, the United Nations adopted what it calls its Agenda for 2030. It reads in part: “We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.” This is a sweet sentiment, I suppose, but it is also, to put it mildly, nuts.
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Faced with the emptiness of their own lives, isolated from many of their contemporaries, and desperately in search of something substantive to give their lives meaning and purpose, young men – and especially young men who find refuge on the internet and in social media – tend to create fantasy lives for themselves, alternate realities in which they not only find the meaning and purpose they crave, but do so in heroic fashion. Read

For most of the last century, the distinctions between the political Right and Left have been obvious and unchanging: hawks vs. doves; big government vs. small government; labor vs. capital; rich vs. poor, and so on. Today, however, the parties are generally unable to distinguish themselves from one another with respect to these measures, and in some cases, have actually swapped positions. So how can they capture the voters’ attention… Read