STEPHEN COUGHLIN: "The Death of the Grownup" could easily have been titled "The Death of (Adult) Discernment." At issue is the systematically intentional effort to infantilize adult thinking - a necessary pre-condition to executing sustained information campaigns . . .

"The Death of the Grownup" should be a pre-requisite to any decision to study the effects of the left on the modern public. At issue is the systematically intentional effort to infantilize adult thinking - a necessary pre-condition to executing sustained information campaigns… https://t.co/obzGESy01G

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) November 9, 2025

The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, Diana West, 2008.