It’s Their Fault

It is ironic that, in a presidential election year with both racial and gender firsts, age will likely end up being the most important dividing line in the electorate. The Times looks at this phenomenon today, with a focus not on the generational dividing lines that I’ve concentrated on, but more on the general [...]

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A pretty devastating article about McCain’s treatment of his former wife, who he left after she became disfigured in a car accident.
Parents are still crazy.
A Dan Drezner essay on public intellectuals:
…the growth of blogs and other forms of online writing have partially reversed a trend that many have lamented:  what Russell Jacoby labeled the “professionalization [...]

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I’ve been meaning to link to a recent opinion piece by Bob Herbert about the Millennials.  I don’t love this particular term for the generation, just like I don’t love Generation Y (or Generation Screwed) but, in any case, it’s well argued and relevant, so I’ll let him speak for himself.    
This is a generation that is in danger of being left [...]

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Much of the reflexive anti-baby boomer anger that we younger generations carry is stirred up in discussions about real estate, especially in these post-bubble days.  Perhaps it is natural then, that one of the most drawn out forum debates on the issue of boomers shows up on a relocation website.  Let the flame war begin (actually [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson, in the National Review, has his own theory on the birth of what he deems our most selfish generation, and it is worth a read:
Sociologists have correctly diagnosed the perfect storm that created the “me” generation — sudden postwar affluence, sacrificing parents who did not wish us to suffer as they had [...]

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A handy, if morbid, tracker. 

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This letter to Andrew Sullivan pretty much sums up what we’ll be discussing on this site.
[The Boomers] were the generation that got their wish in the 1960s with John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. Who saw the promise of a new politics embodied in both men, and had the electoral power through sheer demographics [...]

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