Honestly, is there anything more tedious and less original than an old person yelling about what’s happened to the youth these days? https://t.co/XO7XxzJJjc

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 18, 2019

I get the temptation. Sometimes you’ve so satisfyingly constructed a takedown in your own head and the world just won’t cooperate by presenting the issue on your terms. That’s why everyone needs an editor who says “Either justify this as a reasonable example or quit being lazy.”

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 18, 2019