Hey, Young Americans, Here's a Text for You

Naomi Wolf wrote an op/ed for WaPo, lamenting young people's disengagement with and ignorance of democracy. Cites NAEP history results, but not by name.


"Is America still America if millions of us no longer know how democracy works?

When I speak on college campuses, I find that students are either baffled by democracy's workings or that they don't see any point in engaging in the democratic process. Sometimes both.

Not long ago, I gave a talk at a major university in the Midwest. "They're going to raze our meadows and put in a shopping mall!" a young woman in the audience wailed. "And there's nothing we can do!" she said, to the nods of young and old alike."