Last year in December, Compact published Jacob Savage’s piece “The Lost Generation.”
The polemic went viral. He was subsequently interviewed in these pages.
Savage’s central claim is that around the beginning of the year 2014, cultural industries and a spectrum of institutions began quietly closing the door on millennial men who could not fit themselves into a preferred diversity category. The “Lost Generation” essay’s argument was, for once, presented in an empirical manner, rather than as a moral tirade, which is the conventional format of most who rail against DEI. Savage’s provocative lament was not that older white men had vanished. To the contrary, Savage argues that younger men entering the pipeline after the DEI turn, faced an institutional wall their Gen-X elders had escaped.
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