Ep. 88: Helen Andrews, How Boomers Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Subscribe to The Realignment Substack: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out our Bookshop store: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Helen Andrews, a senior editor at The American Conservative and author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, joins The Realignment to discuss the failed legacy of the Baby Boom generation and the world that Millennials and Gen-Z will inherit.

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0:00.0	Saga and Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:04.0	I do genuinely think there is something special about having the boomers as your parents,
0:17.5	because the boomers were fundamentally allergic to authority.
0:23.0	And you can't be a parent and not exercise authority.
0:25.8	Being allergic to authority makes you unsuited to the very fundamental tasks of raising children.
0:32.5	So millennials are in a better position than anyone to diagnose what's wrong about the
0:39.2	boomers.
0:40.2	So poor gen X, they get sidelined again.
0:48.4	Hope you guys are having a good Thursday.
0:51.4	We have an excellent episode for you all.
0:57.1	We are speaking with Helen Andrews, senior editor of the American Conservative, but her
0:58.3	new book, Boomers, The Men and Women Who Promise Freedom and Delivered Disaster.
1:03.4	It is out this Tuesday, the 12th of January.
1:07.8	But right now it's the perfect dance dough to what I'm sure we are all feeling after the
1:12.8	storming of the Capitol yesterday.
1:15.2	A deep frustration with both our elders and the system that we all live under.
1:20.0	So this is an excellent book.
1:21.4	It's a great conversation.
1:22.4	Helen is very interesting in that she, while being conservative, is tremendously fair to
1:28.4	the figures she profile.
1:29.7	So she talks about Steve Jobs, Al Sharpton, Aaron Sorkin.
1:34.4	But rather than just giving a cold take of how Al Sharpton is engaged in anti-Semitism,
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