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...chief of Psychology Today. In his new book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like Animal House, Requiem for a Dream, Thirteen, Weird Science, Dazed and Confused, and Clueless," he writes...
...last few weeks, as I prepared to review The Case Against Adolescence, Epstein and I engaged in a sometimes heated online debate about whether teens are truly in turmoil. I think the evidence (summarized in my current review and also here) is quite clear: American teens are flourishing. Epstein has a different view. You can decide for yourself. Here are some (highly condensed and edited) excerpts from our more entertaining e-mails. Geek alert: if statistics make your eyes hurt, now's a great time to stop reading...
...your depression stats: OK, but what are the figures for 20 years ago? If you can't compare over time, you're taking a snapshot-a cheater method of statistics. You can't prove your point that our historically recent infantilizing of kids has caused them to be in turmoil unless you show they are in more turmoil today. But they...
Even so, the international community looks on at the turmoil and can do little. Sanctions such as travel bans on senior members of the party and government imposed by the European Union and the U.S. have had little effect. Mugabe has demonstrated time and again that he is prepared to destroy the country rather than give up power. South Africa, the big brother of the region, is the key to change. But President Thabo Mbeki has been afraid to touch Mugabe, who is still seen as a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle in southern Africa. Among the poor...
...house of Tudor stretched from 1485, with the coronation of King Henry VII, to 1603, the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's daughter with Anne Boleyn. It was an era of religious turmoil, fomented by coquettish Lady Anne Boleyn lobbying for her King to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine. As Henry teetered between Catherine's Catholicism and Anne's Protestantism, the faith of a nation depended on a monarch's lust. "Our biggest enemy is terrorism," says Charles Beem, a historian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. "Theirs was the Reformation...