Politicians began to echo the idea that children were owed a culture of self-esteem; as Jesse Singal of The Cut writes, “The self-esteem craze changed how countless organizations were run, how an entire generation—millennials—was educated, and how that generation went on to perceive itself (quite favorably).” As Singal also points out, the social science to suggest that crime and suffering would be minimized with the maximization of self-esteem was junk—it
