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fellow at First Things, and I typically edit these podcasts. But today I will be

interviewing Mark. Mark has authored many things, but today we will be talking about his new book.

The Dumbest Generation grows up from stupefied youth to dangerous adult, which is a sequel to

his The Dumbest Generation. Now, Mark, I suspect that I may be a member of your dumbest generation.

So to start out, why don't you tell us who this dumbest generation is and what makes them so dumb?

They are the ones born between roughly 1983, 84 to 1999, 2000. They were the millennials.

And they're called the millennials because they're coming to age in the turn of the millennium. And they were understood to be the digital natives. The first generation that grew up with these tools, you know, in their infancy. And it was going to change them. And it was going to change them for the good.

This was the hype that we heard in 05-06-07 when Web 2.0 was really taking off.

And the evidence for it was, well, the millennials are so good with the tools.

They're the innovators. They're the digital natives so good with the tools. They're the innovators.

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