On the Modern Plight of the Youth

During oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri First Amendment case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson  talked about kids “seriously injuring or even killing themselves” by “jumping out of windows at increasing elevations” thanks to a social media “teen challenge” that the government would need …

The tyranny of Columbine

The 25 years since the Columbine massacre have given us many occasions — other massacres, alas — to invoke it. But this repetition has had the strange effect of dimming and narrowing our sense of what “Columbine” was in its …