Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison
Auditorium
Diana
West sees a U.S. filled
with middle-age guys playing air guitar
and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic
terrorism." She sees Moms who mosh and
wonders "Is there a single adult
left anywhere?" But, the grown-ups are all
gone. The disease that killed them was incubated in the
sixties to a rock-and-roll score, took hold in
the seventies with the help of
multiculturalism and left us with a nation of eternal
adolescents who can't decide between "good" and "bad," a generation
who can't say "no." From the inability to nix a sixteen
year-old's request for Marilyn Manson concert tickets to offering
adolescents parentally-funded motel rooms on prom night to
rationalizing murderous acts of Islamic suicide bombers with
platitudes of cultural equivalence, West sees us on a slippery
slope that's lead to a time when America has forgotten its place in
the world. In The Death of the Grown-Up, she serves up
a provocative critique of our dangerously indecisive world leavened
with humor and shot through with insight.
DIANA
WEST is a
Washington Times op-ed columnist, syndicated by United
Media, and a CNN contributor to
"Lou Dobbs Tonight." She has
contributed to many other publications includingthe Wall
Street Journal, Weekly Standard, New Criterion,
Public Interest, Women's Quarterly and Washington
Post Magazine. She has also written fiction for
Atlantic Monthly.
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