Hollowed Out: A Warning about America's Next Generation

Do teachers have a front row seat to America's decline?

Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so.

Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: something has gone terribly wrong. Something essential is missing in our young people.

Their curiosity seems stunted, their reason undeveloped, their values uninformed,...