VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Rise Of The Adolescent Mind. “There are lots of issues involved in Wisconsin, in the impending financial and fuel crises, and in the sense of American impotency abroad. Yet a common denominator is a national adolescence, in which we want what we have not earned. We demand the world be the way that it cannot; and we don’t wish to hear ‘unfair’ arguments from ‘bad’ and ‘mean’ people.”