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Gen Z finds democracy dull because it knows so little about history
I was heartened and terrified to read David Mitchell’s article (“Here’s a shock, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect”, New Review). What made his article resonate particularly was the sentence, “Did nobody tell them about Stalin?” As a history A-level student, …