This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

Making sure that all gifted students hit their own personal walls is crucial for developing their empathy with the rest of the world.

When people, groups, or nations desire democracy, they are driven by national freedom not personal liberty.

Children today can handle failure, tug of war, and even red ink on homework assignments. In fact, they would be better off if adults would simply back off.

There is no girl crisis: girls are outperforming boys academically, and girls' self-esteem is no different from boys'.

It is human nature to sometimes feel sad, frustrated, angry, resentful, or insecure. But human nature is not a pathology in need of a cure.

Will Americans actively defend the traditional creed of stoicisim and the ideology of achievement, or will they continue to allow the nation to slide into therapeutic self-absorption?

John Kerry often seems more interested in strategic self-esteem with Europethan in actually winning the war in Iraq.