This brutal takedown of Mark Baurlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under Thirty over at the Huffington Post raises some good points about the perennial efforts of older generations to sound alarms about the insufficient learning, respect, and work ethic of ...

Matt Mason's The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Changing Capitalism is itself a bit of a dilemma. It's about a couple of important issues: the challenges of piracy, the evolution of intellectual property, the impact of open source models on traditional product development strategies, and the changing nature of consumerism. It has a good ...

''Sequential art'' is a fancy way of saying ''comics.'' Manga is of course the Japanese style of comics, now wildly popular around the world and generating readership among young people that American comics haven't experienced in many, many years. In fact, the audience for American comics, particularly the dominant superhero genre popularized by ...

One of the tropes that seems to recur with depressing regularity in the American generational cycle is the death of a prominent young male celebrity - often among the first of his cohort to achieve fame in popular culture - just at the moment when his generation is arriving into adulthood. What's more, these particular young ...