Young Adults May Be Losing Ability to Lead Good Lives

Please, weep for the youngest generation of American adults. We may not be compassionate enough to weep for ourselves.

That is just one of the dismaying takeaways from a new Financial Times column by John Burn-Murdoch on how young people’s minds are changing for the worse. I wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago running through polling data that show how much of Generation Z — awash in social media and moral relativism — has lost its grasp on truth. Burn-Murdoch finds this isn’t the only thing we have lost. Among Americans aged 16 to 39, the personality traits that equip us to do well in life are in sharp decline.

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John R. Puri

John R. Puri is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review.

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Please, weep for the youngest generation of American adults. We may not be compassionate enough to weep for ourselves.

That is just one of the dismaying takeaways from a new Financial Times column by John Burn-Murdoch on how young people’s minds are changing for the worse. I wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago running through polling data that show how much of Generation Z — awash in social media and moral relativism — has lost its grasp on truth. Burn-Murdoch finds this isn’t the only thing we have lost. Among Americans aged 16 to 39, the personality traits that equip us to do well in life are in sharp decline.