(How) America Ate Its Young

Or, How a Society Destroys its Own Future

Here’s a tiny question. How badly would you say America failed its young? Would you say that at the outer limits, being young in America’s something like a death sentence?

“There goes Umair again. So hyperbolic! Arrrugh!” Ah, but am I? What if I can prove my seemingly impossible title to you in one sentence — and it’s…