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Category Archives: America
WP: Is Gen Z the key to a manufacturing revival? Fall River thinks so.
This Washington Post article serves as a practical, sociological case study that operationalizes the theoretical arguments made by Jacob Savage in The Lost Generation. While Savage diagnoses the spiritual and psychological crisis of a generation unmoored by digital abstraction, Rachel … Continue reading
Megan McArdle: The diversity overcorrection in the workplace
This Megan McArdle op-ed deepens the conversation around Jacob Savage’s Compact essay by moving the argument from observation to structural validation, and by shifting the venue from a niche, heterodox outlet to a central pillar of the establishment press. Jacob … Continue reading
The Lost Generation In The Age Of Entitlement
When you overlay Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties onto the Compact essay “The Lost Generation,” the diagnosis shifts from a story about economic bad luck to a story about constitutional obsolescence. The central thesis of … Continue reading
Industrial Policy & The Lost Generation
The 2025 book, Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries, adds a material, economic “base” to the cultural “superstructure” described in Jacob Savage’s
The Lost Generation
The central tension of the Jacob Savage essay can be understood as a generation raised to be “Buffered Selves” colliding with institutions that have suddenly become “Porous.” 1. The “Buffered” Expectation (The Millennial White Male) Charles Taylor defines the Buffered … Continue reading
Jeremy Carl: Why “The Lost Generation” is a Lost Opportunity – The Problem with Jacob Savage’s Viral Article on Millennial White Men.
Jeremy Carl writes: Savage seems to respect and to some extent even revere the very institutions that have spit on him and his White male millennial comrades. And his tendency to focus on the experience of himself and his friends … Continue reading
Is The Trump Vibe Shift Dead?
American culture shifted to the right prior to Trump’s 2024 election. According to Ezra Klein, this has reversed. Ezra Klein attributes the death of the “Trump Vibe Shift” to the classic friction of governance: tariffs, inflation, and the “price of … Continue reading
The DEI Made Them Do It
Here is an update of Joe Queenan’s classic satire, adapted for the “Lost Generation” debate sparked by Jacob Savage and
How many hours do you think Rob Reiner has devoted to Donald Trump over the past decade?
Gemini says: While it is impossible to give a precise timesheet, it is reasonable to estimate that Rob Reiner devoted several thousand hours to opposing Donald Trump over the past decade (2015–2025). Reiner, who passed away in December 2025, made … Continue reading
If racial discrimination against young white men ended tomorrow, what would America look like in five years?
Ross Douthat and Jacob Savage published recent essays about the “Lost Generation” of young white men who feel victimized by anti-white hate. Gemini says: If racial discrimination against young white men ended tomorrow—meaning a complete repeal of DEI mandates, affirmative … Continue reading