Millennial, save thyself
This story of sky-falling moral collapse is worryingly weak. Continue reading →
View ArticleSelfie culture, tourism, and the challenge of the authentic self
Just kidding — who would give a blog post a title like that? Our family vacation this summer, to London and Paris, was my first since the Year of the Selfie Stick (which is this year). This is also the...
View ArticleFertility trends and the myth of Millennials
The other day I showed trends in employment and marriage rates, and made the argument that the generational term “Millennial” and others are not useful: they are imposed before analyzing data and then...
View ArticleAgainst the generations, with video
No one's assessing whether these categories are doing us any good, but everyone's getting a lot of clicks. Continue reading →
View ArticleDraft: Open letter to the Pew Research Center on generation labels
Maybe if we got a lot of signatories to this, or something like it, they would take heed. Suggestions welcome.
View ArticleTalking about generations with Jean Twenge
A good conversation. With transcript and audio.
View ArticleThe Takeaway on Gen-Z, rest of the interview edition
The parts that made it into the show, and the parts that didn't.
View ArticleOpen letter to the Pew Research Center on generation labels
I posted a draft of this, with a discursive preamble, yesterday. To see all the posts on generations, here's the tag. Sign the letter here. We are demographers and other social scientists, writing to...
View ArticleData proves Millennials are the worst fake generation
During the ages 18-29, those born in the 1990s were less happy, had less sex, were less conservative, went to church less, were more likely to favor abortion rights, and opposed stereotypical gender...
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