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What Makes a Millennial?
The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."
by
Sarah Wasserman
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 18, 2022
The Kids Aren’t Alright
A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.
by
Natasha Lennard
via
Dissent
on
January 1, 2018
That Feeling You Recognize? Obamacore.
The 2008 election sparked an outburst of brightness and positivity across pop culture. Now hindsight — and cringe — is setting in.
by
Nate Jones
via
Vulture
on
August 20, 2024
Why Generational Thinking Isn't Bull
Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.
by
Charles Petersen
via
Making History
on
October 8, 2023
End the Generation Wars
Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
by
James Chappel
via
The New Republic
on
November 15, 2021
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2021
Historicizing Dystopia: Suburban Fantastic Media and White Millennial Childhood
On the nostalgic and technophobic motives of the recent boom in suburban fantastic media.
by
Angus McFadzean
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 30, 2021
Defining the ’90s Music Canon
Which songs will future generations use to characterize the decade?
by
Matthew Daniels
via
The Pudding
on
July 1, 2020
The NYT Says We’re Forgetting About the Holocaust
History suggests otherwise.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
April 13, 2018
Heritage 2000
Some years wield such power that you must comply with them.
by
Dan Piepenbring
via
n+1
on
January 26, 2024
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.
by
Jayne Ross
via
The American Scholar
on
November 30, 2023
Is It Useful to Analyze Politics in Terms of Generations?
Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.
by
Adolph Reed Jr.
,
Keir Milburn
via
The Nation
on
July 14, 2023
My Generation
Anthem for a forgotten cohort.
by
Justin E. H. Smith
via
Harper’s
on
June 9, 2023
Life Can Be Different: 10 Years Ago, Occupy Wall Street Changed the World
The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.
by
Rebecca Nathanson
via
The Guardian
on
September 15, 2021
Which Generation Controls the Senate?
A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.
by
Will Donnell
via
wcd.fyi
on
January 18, 2021
The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote
What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
by
Garrett M. Graff
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 11, 2020
Welcome to the Radical Suburbs
We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?
by
Amanda Kolson Hurley
via
CityLab
on
April 9, 2019
The Strange Story of the Forever 1980s
Why the makers of today's popular culture are still so obsessed with the Reagan era.
by
Jarrett Ruminski
via
That Devil History
on
October 29, 2017
Your Generational Identity Is a Lie
You are not Gen X. You are not a Millennial. Unless you are a Baby Boomer, you are nothing.
by
Philip Bump
via
Washington Post
on
April 1, 2015
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