In response to some of the foolishness taking place around the country on tax day today, I offer a very un-GenX take on the subject of the individual and the community, reposted from my old Emphasis Added blog from 2003:The concept of  the “rugged individual” is intimately bound up with contemporary conservatism. He (because the ideal is ...

The Baby Boomers were, until recently, the largest generation in American history (at 78 million). They dominated American life and culture for more than 50 years - as the first kids raised on TV in the 1950s, the disruptive peaceniks, Vietnam warriors, and crewcut Nixon bully-boys of the 60s, discoteque denizens of the 70s, yuppie 30-somethings ...

The ascendency of Barack Obama as a legitimate contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination has focused a lot of attention on the generation gap, even though some would argue that Obama (b. 1961) is technically still a Baby Boomer, albeit at the opposite end of the curve from Hillary Clinton (b.1946). From the perspective of life ...