Ads for“the revolutionary Corvair” lauded “the supple quality of its ride” and “the nimble bulk-free precision of its going.” Optimism for the car dissipated when it became the subject of consumer crusader Ralph Nader’s 1965 landmark book “Unsafe at Any Speed.” The book cited the...
Now, people are not mice, and there are limits to what one can learn from a single experiment. But if humans really do feel things most intensely during adolescence, and if, at this same developmental moment, they also happen to be working out an identity for the first time—“sometimes ...