America's Lost Generation

A protester in Queens, New York, holds a placard during a protest against in-person learning (John Nacion/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images).
The scientific consensus is clear: children should be in school. But an estimated 18 million kids haven't set foot inside. Why?
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I’m not a libertarian. I learned this when I was 23 and witnessed a libertarian arguing in favor of putting hard drugs in vending machines.
But I tend to really like libertarians. They are fun (see under: drugs in vending machines); they are intellectually consistent; and the fact that they tend to be on the losing side in the world of politics has left…
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