By Nick Adams
November 3, 2025

This Halloween I came across a picture that looked to be from the 1980s of a beautiful tree-lined suburb during a long forgotten trick-or-treating adventure. Kids walked carefree down the street, parents standing on their lawns in the distance, pristine cars parked along the curb. But suddenly this happy nostalgia was interrupted when I read the caption above the photo: “When the average homeowner is 58, or whatever it is, you lose this.”

And then it struck me. Nostalgia for the late 20th century is all the more poignant among those who never experienced it. I am talking specifically about Generation Z, the young people who were let down by politicians, public schools, the banking system, World Trade Organization (WTO), NAFTA, short-sighted foreign policy, the culture at large, and globalism as a whole.

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