It’s Time to Get Serious

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Prevailing wisdom insists that your twenties are for extreme exploration—collecting memories, friends, partners, identities. It’s BS.
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One of the most striking essays we have run since the start of this publication is called The Case for American Seriousness. (We loved it so much we had the author, Katherine Boyle, read it aloud on Honestly.)
The piece made the argument that at the root of the problems we face as a nation is a problem of seriousness. Or rather, a lack of it. That we hav…
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