Nations thrive when rebellion is based on curiosity and new ideas, and America's youth aren't living up to the challenge.
The pandemic revealed many troubling trends that had been brewing for a long time without much notice. A big one is the curious lack of rebelliousness among young people.
University and high school years used to be a time to test boundaries and break rules. So when schools finally reopened with fairly draconian Covid restrictions, I kept waiting for students to push back and rebel. After all, they are mostly vaccinated and face lower risk than older adults.
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Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
This piece originally appeared in Bloomberg Opinion