The sad, sad state of adolescence

To hear people tell it, the kids are definitely not all right. According to The Washington Post, there’s “a crisis in American girlhood.” To Derek Thompson in The Atlantic, “the inexorable rise of teen anxiety ought to be a national crisis.”

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, quoting a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts it this way: “American teenagers, and especia…