The Kids Aren't Alright

Harris' book is a crucial work of generational analysis in part because it severs the connection between the idea of generations and the presupposition of progress. Against a glut of reductive clickbait stories dedicated to asserting "Millennials be like [insert broad observation]" Harris tells the story of a generation coming into being as human capital, how specific material conditions account for the way millennials be like—and, crucially, "in whose interests it is that we exist this way."

Natasha Lennard reviews Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris