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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
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Dissent
on
January 1, 2018
Why Generational Thinking Isn't Bull
Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.
by
Charles Petersen
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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
via
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
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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
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The Pudding
on
July 1, 2020
Y2K @ 20
For millennials, Y2K felt like an apocalypse. Twenty years later, we’re still anxious.
by
Choire Sicha
,
Joanna Nikas
,
Tracy Ma
via
New York Times
on
December 23, 2019
The Fleecing of Millennials
Their incomes are flat. Their wealth is down. And Washington is aggravating future threats.
by
David Leonhardt
via
New York Times
on
January 27, 2019
The NYT Says We’re Forgetting About the Holocaust
History suggests otherwise.
by
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
April 13, 2018
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
The Best Way to Explain the G.O.P. Is Found in the W.W.E.
Kayfabe — the knowledge that pro wrestling is fake — has a long history in American entertainment. It also explains something deep about G.O.P. politics now.
by
Abraham Josephine Riesman
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New York Times
on
February 26, 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
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 Watergate Class of ’74 Has Valuable Lessons for Freshman Democrats
For starters, keep it local.
by
Mark Schmitt
via
New York Times
on
January 3, 2019
Holocaust Is Fading from Memory, Survey Finds
31% of Americans and 41% of millennials believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
by
Maggie Astor
via
New York Times
on
April 12, 2018
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