Jay Caspian Kang

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The Kids Are Kind of Alright

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What's really going on?

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Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed

By: Jay Caspian Kang

One of the most thought-provoking books I've read in the past year is Noam Scheiber's “ Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working

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If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

By: Jay Caspian Kang

The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.

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How I Became a Subaru Socialist

By: Jay Caspian Kang

By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.

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Why Millennial Professionals Are Embracing Socialism

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Jay Caspian Kang considers how he became a “Subaru Socialist.”

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How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with flaky kids, occasionally

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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.

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Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?

By: Jay Caspian Kang

This is part of a series of columns about the decline of shame in the age of social media.

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How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Earlier this year, I wrote a series of columns about how the decline of the Church in America had eroded the social infrastructure that once supported

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Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.