![]() They weren't just passive couch potatoes as TV watchers. A more interactive, participatory venue set in so that people could do things like do product reviews. People probably don't remember much that term, but it was real hot in those first years after social media. But boy, did that change over the eight years' time.īut that was really part of a general enthusiasm going on in the first decade of the third millennium for Web 2.0, as it was called. They elected our first African-American president." They went two-to-one for Obama after, by the way, Bush and Gore split the youth vote. They got these great tolerant, open-minded, broad-thinking attitudes. They're going to college in record numbers. Mark Bauerlein: Well, that cheerleading for the millennials that we heard in '05, '06, '07, "They're so young, and they're smart, and they're innovative, and they're ambitious. What's changed between the original book, The Dumbest Generation, and this 2022 version about these dangerous adults? I think even the most committed optimist these days about the digital natives would concede that that's not what's happened. Seeing this generation as having been reared on the internet, raised in this information-dense world, they were pretty positive that they were going to usher in this more just, more interconnected, and a better world once they grew up. In a way, it's an update of your 2008 book, The Dumbest Generation, which was published at a period when a lot of optimistic observers were talking about the rise of the millennials. Well, that's been the case with you, Mark, I would say. ![]() ![]() It's a process that then builds into an avalanche.īrian Anderson: Once you start moving in one direction, you just keep moving. One thing I found was that once you move a little to the right and then you suddenly see a few suspicious looks on your colleagues' faces, it pushes you a little further to the right. Mark Bauerlein: That was actually an important book for me because I was a very staunch liberal and academic, English department in the '90s, and just reading some other things, including Heather's book, opened things up for me and I started to drift a little to the right. But yeah, they were all based on City Journal pieces. It was a compilation mostly, but the essays were updated and turned into more of a straightforward narrative. Actually, I'll say Heather's book The Burden of Bad Ideas, which really was a compilation, weren't most of those pieces out of City Journal?īrian Anderson: Yes, that's right. I'm going back to the first stuff I was reading by Heather Mac Donald and Sol Stern and Fred Siegel. You've got such a great stable of writers. Mark Bauerlein: I'm very happy to join you there at City Journal. He hosts the First Thoughts podcast, which First Things runs, and he's the author of many books, including something brand new called The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. Mark is a senior editor of First Things magazine and an English professor at Emory University. Joining me on today's show is Mark Bauerlein. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast.
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