Alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics tend to be born in “3″ and “4″ years. Why?

Hip hop, zines, alt-culture comics, post-punk, hardcore…

A lost generation born from 1954-63.

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The Boomers’ collective capacity for “imaginative suggestibility” is huge.

Long before Alan Moore asked “Who will watch the Watchmen?” Radium-Age (1904-33)…

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A prehistoric track stretches across 250 miles from the Dorset coast to…

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If Middlebrow is forever working to naturalize the unnatural, eternalize the temporary,…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1934-43 were in their teens…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1924-33 were in their teens…

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Members of the generational cohort born from 1914-23 were in their teens…

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William Strauss and Neil Howe claim that a “GI Generation” (renamed the…

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Though Middlebrow wouldn’t triumph until midcentury, and though its most perspicacious critics…

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Gertrude Stein and others (including Strauss & Howe) have lumped Ezra Pound,…

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Members of the Modernist Generation, born from 1884-93, were in their teens…

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In today’s New York Times Week in Review section, Mary Jo Murphy…

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“The domestic beast has been bred to special purpose; the tame animal…

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The Psychonauts, born from 1874 to 1883, are a generation of expatriates,…

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The Anarcho-Symbolists are a lost generation, overshadowed by their immediate elders (the…

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I’ve named this 1854-63 generation after one of its members: Percival Lowell,…

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“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been…

How was one to explain the sudden prominence of a cohort of young conservatives (masquerading as post-partisan pragmatists) in the last few years of the Nineties? What to make of the so-called "Generation Y" we were hearing so much about at the time? I examined their writings and organizations and congressional testimony and tried to unravel their tangled ideas, but that was not enough. The editors of <em>The Baffler</em> asked me to come up with some kind of narrative that could make sense of it. My tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theory first appeared in <em>The Baffler</em> #14 (Spring 2001).

THE THEORY STARTS like this: Plunged into despondency by the 1992 election,…

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Earlier this week, Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam gave my generational periodization…

<em>Repo Man</em>, directed by Alex Cox (born 1954) and starring Emilio Estevez (1962), is a key work of the Original Generation X.

In a recent Hilobrow.com post, I casually asserted that the Baby Boomers…

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The oldest Boomers turn 65 this year, and the youngest turn 56….