generations

Are the Millennials Secretly Prosperous?

Writer Jean Twenge says that by comparison to Boomers and Gen Xers at the same stage of life, Millennials aren't doing as badly as believed, though patterns of family formation and childbirth seem to be undergoing a permanent shift. 

Despite the Cultural Differences, There's Common Ground Between Boomers and Zoomers

by Joseph Preston Baratta

Despite the differences in their cultural touchstones, Gen Z faces the yet-incomplete challenge of the Baby Boom generation: uniting the world in novel ways to solve global problems. 

Thinking in Generational Terms is Holding Us Back

by James Chappel

"A politics that relies on young people to revitalize democracy and address inequality is likely to prove a disappointment."

Time to Stop Talking about "Generations"

by Louis Menand

By this light, generations are just a novel way of slicing up the space-time continuum, no more arbitrary. The question, therefore, is not “Are generations real?” The question is “Are they a helpful way to understand anything?”

“I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility”

Today’s 40-year-olds on the lives they’ve led, and now this.

Coronavirus Comparisons to World War II Are Rampant. Are We Ready to Be the Greatest Generation?

How similar is coronavirus mobilization to World War II mobilization?

He Wrote the Book on Boomers, and He Thinks the Gen Z Rap Against Them Isn’t Quite OK

“The Greater Generation” was a conscious retort to decades of boomer bashing. “Hating boomers,” Steinhorn recalls, “had become the last acceptable prejudice.

The problem with ‘OK, boomer’

by Holly Scott

Generational divides distract from deeper questions of power. Boomers should remember that from the 1960s.