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Disaffection Among Today’s Youth Rooted in Boomers’ ‘Long March Through the Institutions’

Disaffection Among Today’s Youth Rooted in Boomers’ ‘Long March Through the Institutions’
Sweden's then-education minister Olof Palme talks to leftist students who occupied the Student Union Building at Stockholm University on May 25, 1968. Public Domain
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Apparently, the youth of today are a surly lot. Which maybe you knew already. But a new Angus Reid/Cardus survey says at least in Canada they’re also nihilists. It seems the adults have failed them badly.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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