Amity Shlaes on the revolutionary attitude of youth in America

Jeff Deist: There is a sense of a slow, gradual march, and then occasionally there are great leaps forward.  It feels like we're in the latter phase at the moment.

Amity Shlaes: The current period reminds us of the Cultural Revolution in China - heavy pressure from youth, and dangerous youth sanctimony.  Young people telling older people the way things must be.  It's disconcerting to observe such a dynamic in the United States.

~ Amity Shlaes, "2020: The 1960s Redux?," The Austrian, July-August 2020