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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: Something Awful Happening With Our Youth
Description: Following a weekend of “fiery violence” in Chicago, the Mayor-elect, Brandon Johnson, said: “It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.” The same weekend, four teenagers were shot and killed in Dadeville, Alabama. Something awful is happening with our youth and it’s spreading beyond our major cities—but it’s not a lack of economic opportunity. Reckless and senseless violent crime is not caused by poverty. What this comes from is “moral poverty.” Economics does not drive the lack of impulse control. The absence comes from not teaching young boy...