{"id":14122,"date":"2012-05-10T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2012-05-10T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:03:43","slug":"ezra-klein-and-the-cult-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14122\/ezra-klein-and-the-cult-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Klein and the Cult of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With spring quickly turning to summer, it&#8217;s graduation season throughout the nation. This is a time of year where rubbish masquerading as good advice is rampant, and the same holds true in the Twitterverse, where liberal uber-pundit Ezra Klein offered up this half-baked idea:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14124\" title=\"Ezra-Klein_lightbox\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ezra-Klein_lightbox1.png\" alt=\"Ezra-Klein_lightbox\" width=\"595\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ezra-Klein_lightbox1.png 595w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ezra-Klein_lightbox1-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/>Um, Ezra &#8230; nothing. There&#8217;s a thread in modern liberalism &#8212; going all the way back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau &#8212; which esteems the callow and untutored as morally superior to the experienced and wise. Unfortunately, since the 1960s, that belief has increasingly come to be shared by society at large.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of ink spilled on this topic in highfalutin journals and serious publications &#8212; much of it worthwhile. But for my (admittedly demotic) tastes, late night comic Craig Ferguson really hit the nail on the head in a monologue a few years ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UKUZ42T9diU\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UKUZ42T9diU\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With spring quickly turning to summer, it&#8217;s graduation season throughout the nation. This is a time of year where rubbish masquerading as good advice is rampant, and the same holds true in the Twitterverse, where liberal uber-pundit Ezra Klein offered up this half-baked idea: Um, Ezra &#8230; nothing. There&#8217;s a thread in modern liberalism &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3529,3528,64,675,852,754,3530],"class_list":["post-14122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-commencement-addresses","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-education","tag-ezra-klein","tag-jean-jacques-rousseau","tag-liberalism","tag-youth-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14140,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14122\/revisions\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}