When the Pencil Was the Sword
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.
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Teen Jacobin
All of [our] policies strive to inspire the youth with belief in its own strength and in the future. Only the fresh enthusiasm and aggressive spirit of the youth can guarantee the preliminary successes in the struggle; only these successes can return the best elements of the older generation to the road of revolution. Thus it was, thus it will be.
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Feature
The Therapist Will Raise You Now
Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.
The Making of the Teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
Politics After Literacy
Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.
Front Matters
Cultural Capital
The International
The Tumbrel
Girondins
Wolves in Youth’s Clothing
Zohrannabes
Is Zionism Political Poison?
On Newness, the Nautilus, and the Democratic Need for a Savior
Thermidor
JROTC Is Preying on Poor Students
High School Hunting Grounds
On Terrorists, Wine Moms, and Life on the Fringes
Behind MrBeast’s Cold, Dead Eyes
