The Anti Boomers

The latest from me

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share recent writing of mine in American Mind magazine. Two articles:

The Anti Boomers - about why Boomers and Millennials are so consistently shocked by the opinions of Gen Z. A lot about the split on the Left we’re seeing play out at Harvard and elsewhere.

That Gen Z was different became most evident after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. The last time this happened—in 2006, in the shadow of 9/11—not a single person said, “Hey, y’know, there’s two sides to this thing.” It was black and white, terror versus freedom. Millennials, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed true believers who’d taken school field trips to visit the Amistad, voted for Obama, and repeated plucky slogans about the power of higher education and world peace didn’t yet have the tools or tragedies to question their precooked narrative. They didn’t have a space to call their own.

But while we (Millennials) were putting our best foot forward on LinkedIn, Gen Z grew its own culture, truly cut off…