OLD ENOUGH TO FIGHT, OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK? In today’s Wall Street Journal, I argue for scrapping the federal mandate requiring a 21-year-old drinking age.

UPDATE: From the comments to this post: “We ought not to be surprised that we’ve cultivated a couple of generations of people whose adolescence has extended into their mid-twenties, when we tell them clearly that we think they’re irresponsible, unaccountable and that we regard them as children until they’re 21.”