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Apr 27, 2015
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Egypt’s vanishing youth  Esraa el-Taweel, 23, went out to dinner with friends on June 1 and has not been seen since. Ms. Taweel, a student and photojournalist who was shot in the spine last year while covering protests on the anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, is said to have difficulty walking. Her family believes she was forcibly “disappeared” along with two young friends, Sohaib Mohamed and Amr Mohamed.

For days now, the hashtag #forceddisappearance has spread across Egyptian social media, as family and friends look for missing loved ones, mostly young people from across the political spectrum. Some are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and others are affiliated with the secular April 6 youth movement, while still others are not attached to any movement or party. All are victims of a war on young people, in a country where more than half the population is under 25...

5 Things We’ll Always Cherish about Elisabeth Elliot  Yesterday, one of the most influential Christians of our time, Elisabeth Elliot, died at 88. Elliot was a pioneer in the world of Christian missions, a renowned author and speaker, and a true disciple of Christ. Today, Crosswalk would honor her life and works by reflecting on the many things we’ll always cherish about Elisabeth Elliot...

Teenagers Are Losing Confidence in the American Dream Compared to their counterparts in recent years, high-school seniors in the mid-1990s appeared to have more faith in social mobility and less confidence in the power of having money...

The state of the American mind: Anti-intellectualism in America more than 25 years after Allan Bloom In “The State of the American Mind” (Templeton Press, June 2015), edited by Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow, researchers from a wide variety of fields penned essays discussing the decline of American culture and ways of thinking. In a discussion at AEI on Thursday, moderated by Bellow, four of the book’s contributors discussed their essays, presenting evidence of specific trends within this general decline...