„The riot at Berkeley was not an isolated incident…”

Ben Sasse’s new book, The Vanishing American Adult, looks at the state of adulthood in the US, and asks how and why we are failing to socialise a new generation into adults. Sasse, who is a former college president and the junior Republican Senator for the state of Nebraska, argues that the tendency of young Americans to linger in a perpetual state of adolescence has serious implications for them and for the health of democracy.
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Only two thirds of university students are able to pass the US naturalisation test administered to immigrants applying for citizenship.
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Nancy McDermott
„Where Have All the Adults Gone?”