Five Things You Need to Read Today

I've been doing weekly updates on Sundays, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. But I've been finding too many interesting stories, so I'm now going to start experimenting with doing several of these updates per week. Today, the main theme is what you discover when you read beyond the headline.

1. Helicopter Protesting

The big pro-gun-control demonstrations last weekend are being touted as the defining moment of the late Millennial generation. Much as I like to think ill of Millennials, second only to thinking ill of the Baby Boomers, such projections are unlikely to be true because, as Dave Marcus points out, they weren't true of the Boomers, who were not defined by the hippies and went on to vote for Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. "Neither of these generations, and in fact no generation at all, is defined by...media-hyped paradigms of what they think and do."

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