To explain the latest young generation’s pessimism, Washington Post opinion writer Taylor Lorenz took to what was then called Twitter last February to lament “the fact that we’re living in a late stage capitalist hellscape during an ongoing deadly pandemic w record wealth inequality, 0 social safety net/job security, as climate change cooks the world.”
The Associated Press, despite boasting many excellent individual reporters, long ago lowered standards and became, at least at its top levels, a frequent purveyor of toxic and dishonest left-wing agitprop. Even by those lowered standards, though, the Associated Press’s main story on the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay was a disgrace.
I was in the middle of my last year in college at the University of Pennsylvania when the COVID pandemic happened. In March 2020, I was on spring break when the university stopped in-person classes and switched to remote learning. I didn’t know it then, but I would never set foot on Penn’s campus again before graduating. Last month, I was sent a refund check as part of a class-action lawsuit for the transition to online learning. The total didn’t even amount to the cost of one of my textbooks.