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Is nostalgia killing childhood?
Childlore is one of the great cultural inheritances of humanity, and one of the most enduring. But it's a fragile ecosystem, and whether it can survive…
Nov 21
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Andrew Potter
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July 2024
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.
Jul 17
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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…
Jul 8
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Andrew Potter
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June 2024
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…
Jun 19
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Andrew Potter
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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…
Jun 3
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Andrew Potter
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May 2024
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.
May 9
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Andrew Potter
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April 2024
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.
Apr 25
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Andrew Potter
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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…
Apr 13
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Andrew Potter
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March 2024
What's Eating Generation X?
We like to celebrate our status as "latchkey kids", but the neglect it signified continues to have profound psychological consequences.
Mar 10
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Andrew Potter
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February 2024
Drunk and Reckless in the Age of Boredom
If there is one thing that enabled a lot of bad behaviour back in the eighties, it was the almost complete absence of widespread parental oversight
Feb 27
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Andrew Potter
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In the High Church of Arena Rock
Every generation finds the gods it needs.
Feb 16
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Andrew Potter
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A Rape in Cyberspace, revisited
Thirty years ago, an online sexual assault challenged our very assumptions about the real and the virtual. With the rapid rise of the Metaverse, we are…
Feb 11
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Andrew Potter
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