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Why is Gen X so reactionary?
The truth about how we went from Generation MTV to Generation GOP is less about selling out, and more about the relentless power of nostalgia.
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Andrew Potter
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The truth about latchkey kids
Gen Xers like to boast about being left unsupervised after school. But there was a grim side to it that has left many determined not to repeat the sins…
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Andrew Potter
7
Spy vs Everyone (but especially Donald Trump)
The most influential magazine of this century stopped publishing in 1998, but its legacy is both invisible and everywhere, from Twitter to the American…
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Andrew Potter
15
This is your brain on peer pressure
The one thing that unites parents from the 1980s and those trying to raise today's digital natives, it's a deep-rooted fear of what the kids get up to…
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Andrew Potter
8
How Apple totally lost the plot
The new ad showing the destruction of analog culture to sell iPads is an amazing failure to read the room by a company that used to know better.
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Andrew Potter
6
Coming to terms with the f** word
As much as Gen Xers romanticize the pop culture of the 1980s, it's important to acknowledge how relentlessly homophobic so much of it was.
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Andrew Potter
12
O.J. and the Eclipse of the Monoculture
When people cheered during the eclipse, was it appreciation for the celestial show, or a deeper delight in a return to the forgotten world of shared…
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Andrew Potter
15
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