Growing up everyone told me that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, on a long, steady, slow decline. I no longer see it this way. Maybe it’s because I studied history in college and discovered the amusing fact that about once a decade some grumpy historian/politician/scholar will gripe about “kids these days” [...]

Beginning sometime in your twenties humans start to have moments where you go, “man, I’m OLD.” You start to notice that people you used to think were so grown up — eighth graders, the JV soccer team, college freshmen — all look like babies to you. You go to the mall and notice that what [...]