baby boomers

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• 12/5/2021
  

  What Will We Lose if the Anti-CRT Movement Wins?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  "Conservative parents and pundits want to prevent white students from being exposed to the messiness and inequities of America’s past.  What will it mean if they succeed in doing so?"

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/15/2021
  

  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."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/28/2021
  

  The Conservative Case Against the Boomers

  by Ben Wallace-Wells

  Reviewed: Helen Andrews' "Boomers," which indicts the affluent and influential members of that generation from a conservative Catholic perspective for delivering freedom only for their advantaged cohort while establishing a debased and decadent set of cultural norms. 

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Baby Boomers: Incapable of Greatness

  by Gregory D. Foster

  The problems of contemporary society can be attributed to a generation born at the right time who squandered the opportunity to do something for the allure of being something.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/5/2020
  

  V-E Day Plus 75

  by Andrew Bacevich

  What the present pandemic drives home is that protecting Americans while also creating an environment in which all citizens can flourish is going to require a radical revision of American national security policies based in Baby Boomers' interpretation of the meaning of World War II.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/17/2020
  

  “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility”

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

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/27/2020
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/13/19
  

  The problem with ‘OK, boomer’

  by Holly Scott

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

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/25/19
  

  Why fears over Generation Z are overblown

  by Miranda Sachs

  We keep comparing young Americans to baby boomers and Generation X, but those comparisons are deeply flawed.

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• 9/5/19
  

  How The Media Covered Woodstock – and How Woodstock Changed The Media

  by Harlan Lebo

  Woodstock was a milestone – not just in coverage of the music scene, but also in broader media exploration of social and economic issues that affect younger audiences. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8/18/19
  

  What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

  by Louis Menand

  Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

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• What the Washington Post Gets Wrong About Boomer Suicides

  by Leonard Steinhorn

  Image via Shutterstock."How did a generation that started out with so much going for it end up so despondent in midlife?"So asks the Washington Post in its recent front page story, "Why the sharp rise in suicides by boomers?"