Max Bloom muses at National Review Online that young liberals tend to espouse one set of views while living by another.
… [I]t really is true that a segment of American Millennials, particularly the well-educated and the affluent, subscribe to social beliefs far to the left of the American mainstream, current or historical. This won’t be news to anyone who has followed developments on American campuses over the past several years: social conservatives shouted down or assaulted; professors harassed and forced to leave for the most anodyne departures from consensus; student groups that accept as gospel positions on gender and sexuality that most Americans would find literally unbelievable, if not incomprehensible. …
… Funny thing, though: We don’t practice what we preach. For starters, all the “sex positivity” notwithstanding, we don’t actually have very much sex. Millennials are more than twice as likely to have had no sexual partners in their early 20s than those born in the 1960s. In general, Millennials have about as many sexual partners as Baby Boomers and considerably less than Generation X-ers — those born in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. If anything the trend is more pronounced at top universities: Nineteen percent of Harvard students graduated the university in 2017 as virgins, the Harvard Crimson reported, and 49 percent of graduating students had two or fewer sexual partners over their four years. …
… Millennials are traditional in other ways, too: They are less likely to drink, smoke marijuana, or use cocaine than previous generations, although they are more likely to use painkillers, an artifact of the opioid epidemic. Only about half of Harvard students used marijuana by the time they graduated, and 20 percent reported drinking alcohol less than once a month. And on the economic front, for all the Marxists on campus, students at top universities are notorious for being relentlessly career-oriented. At the University of Chicago, clean-shaven economics majors in collared shirts and khakis, constantly scanning the horizon for the next consulting or finance internship, are considerably more visible than purple-haired Communists.