Gen Z
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The Narcissistic Cult of the Winter Arc October 20, 2025
Is there someone you haven’t seen this month? Maybe a friend stopped answering your calls; maybe a colleague disappeared with no trace besides a suspicious set of footprints leading to the local gym. Perhaps you wandered down a desolate path and came...
Why God Came Back October 16, 2025
Nearly 60 years ago, Time magazine, then an important publication, posed a discomfiting question on its cover: “Is God Dead?” Yet today, a spiritual hunger grips America, with roughly two-thirds of religiously unaffiliated Americans still believing i...
The Book That Could Shake the Pope’s Faith October 14, 2025
The eternal truths of religion are having a moment. Church pews are filling up with newcomers. Gen Z is earnestly discussing demons and sedevacantism on social media. This might, therefore, seem like a good time to publish a book which purports to la...
Free Speech Is a Core American Value October 06, 2025
Freedom of speech on university campuses has collapsed. Left-leaning college administrators, faculty, and students have been silencing conservative voices, and conservative students are increasingly adopting the Left’s errant ways. The Trump Administ...
Hamlet Is the Gen Z Story We Need Right Now October 06, 2025
It’s a familiar story these days. You might even be living inside it. Or, if not, you know somebody who is.A young man returns from college, but he doesn’t have a job. So he moves back home. But here his life is aimless, and he falls into a deep depr...
Gen Z Is Not as Besotted With AI as You Think September 30, 2025
If everybody is struggling to figure out what AI really is, or how it will affect our lives as a whole, one thing would seem to be certain: Gen Z is defined by AI in the way that flappers might have been by the radio or Boomers by the electric guitar...
Finger-Wagging Won’t Win Over Gen Z September 23, 2025
François Bayrou had nothing left to lose. Days before the French National Assembly was set to pass a motion of no confidence in his government, the 74-year-old prime minister went on national television to pin the blame for France’s slew of seemingly...
Why Gen Z Hates Work September 19, 2025
After Daniel Hayon, a 23-year-old from Los Angeles, graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2023, he started looking for a job. Interviewing with a fashion start-up, a real estate company, a few tech firms, and marketing agencies, he made it to the final...
Disney’s ‘Boy Trouble’ Is A Crisis Of Its Own Making September 09, 2025
Disney has a “boy problem.” At least, that’s what a recent Variety report suggests, quoting insiders at the company who admit the entertainment company has lost the interest of Gen Z men that the outlet describes as a “lonely, gaming-obsessed group w...
How Chili’s Won Gen Z August 13, 2025
In May I walked into a Chili’s Grill & Bar for the first time in a decade. I quickly adjusted to the sensory overload. My table was covered with a giant laminated menu, a paper tent pushing the restaurant’s margaritas and fajitas, and an electronic d...
What Micro-Retirement Says About Gen Z August 12, 2025
For some Gen Zers, it’s already time to retire. A new trend known as “micro-retirement” has spread like wildfire on social media. It involves young adults working for a few years, quitting their jobs to pursue life experiences, and then repeating the...
What Families Gain at the Dinner Table August 12, 2025
One of America’s long-standing cultural institutions is in decline. The Survey Center on American Life is reporting that only 38 percent of Gen Z Americans who are now adults report eating regularly with family at the dinner table. This is in contras...
The Rise of the Glossier Intellectual August 12, 2025
It’s you, but better! You have strong bushy eyebrows and high cheekbones and a face so dewy it could have been submerged in a river literally seconds ago. Your pores are sort of there, but not really. The sun is shining through your skull the way it ...
Confessions of a Zillennial Ex–Party Girl August 11, 2025
I was born in 1998. By all technicalities, I am Gen Z, although I often refer to myself as a “zillennial:” someone on the cusp of the Gen Z/Millennial cut-off who bridges the generational divide. I’m too old to participate in most Gen Z fashion trend...
Gen Z Has Too Much Freedom August 08, 2025
Gen Z is, in most ways, no different than the generations who came before us. Cigarette lighters in our cars were replaced with phone chargers, but we still follow the incentives given to us and do what is required of us to survive. The problem is, t...
Gen Z Is Worse Than You Think August 04, 2025
Gen Z is, in most ways, no different than the generations who came before us. Cigarette lighters in our cars were replaced with phone chargers, but we still follow the incentives given to us and do what is required of us to survive. The problem is, t...
Gen Z Isn't Powerless Against Technology August 01, 2025
Gen Z has little familiarity with "any sense of community," writer Freya India said in a teary-eyed rant recently."Attention hijacking is the thing I worry most about on a long term basis for humanity's thriving," wrote Jackson Dahl. "Techno-capitali...
Gen Z Has Lost Its Fragility July 25, 2025
In the recent debate that has resurfaced around abortion, one of the most common benchmarks for lawmakers is that once the baby is able to survive on his own outside of the womb, he should no longer be aborted. “So,” I think to myself, “around age 19...
Sex For Sex's Sake July 17, 2025
There’s a pressure in talking about sex to make it about something else. I do it myself in my own work — when I write about sex, I often highlight that my broader emphasis is on loneliness and human connection. Sex, in that context, is just one vecto...
Why Gen Z Goes Mad for Dostoyevsky July 15, 2025
In a letter written after his release from a Siberian prison camp, in 1854, Fyodor Dostoyevsky defined himself as “a child of the century, a child of disbelief and doubt”. The materialism, nihilism, and atheism which spasmed across 19th-century Russi...
Will Gen Z Realize Its Future Runs on Fossil Fuels? July 14, 2025
American innovation requires our energy sector to use all available resources, but Generation Z apparently wants to limit its potential. Pew Research Center discovered that 43 percent of Gen Z respondents support phasing out oil, natural gas, and coa...
Reports of Gen Z’s Lameness Are Greatly Exaggerated July 04, 2025
I graduated from Yale in May. For the past four years, I’ve existed in an oasis filled with 18-24 year olds whose primary responsibilities include schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and making friends. College often felt like it was folding into...
Lorde’s Sadgirl Pop Sings of Gen Z Vanity July 03, 2025
Lorde is a 28-year-old teenager. As such, she spends her days looking at herself in the mirror, then scribbling down furious reflections on how much she hates herself. When she’s not doing that, she’s thinking about boys....
Welcome to the Summer of Addison Rae July 01, 2025
Last year, Charli XCX lit a neon-green fire under the pop world with Brat — a brash, chaotic album that redefined what pop could sound like in 2024. The summer became dominated by the British singer’s viral success, seeping into the mainstream of Ame...
How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation April 24, 2025
The video starts with bold red letters blaring: “2016 Democrat Primary Voter Fraud CAUGHT ON TAPE.” A series of blurry security footage follows, showing blatant instances of ballot stuffing. The only problem: The clips actually depict voter fraud in ...
