Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

Hello, this is Aaron Ren, contributing editor at City Journal.

And I'm here with Matt Hennessey, someone you remember well as the former associate editor of

a City Journal and my next door neighbor in the office, who is now with the Wall Street Journal.

He's here to discuss his article in the summer 2017 edition of City Journal, Zero Hour for Generation X.

So, Matt, thanks for coming back and joining us to talk about your piece.

It's my pleasure, hour.

Everybody has a different years and systems they use to talk about generations, demarcate generations.

What is the generational framework that you use and how do you define Generation X?

Yeah, it's fuzzy.

A lot of people don't even like to use this kind of lens to look at the world.

They think it's bogus. I've gotten a lot of reaction like that since the thesis was published. Roughly speaking, I think that demographers and

survey artists like Pew would call Generation X anyone born between about 1965 and about 1980.

That works fine. Of course, as I said, it's a, you know,

it gets blurry around the edges. If you're born in 1964, of course, you're probably in the

Generation X. And if you were born in 1981, you're probably in Generation X. But someone born in

1981 or 1964 may, by virtue of circumstance or personality, exhibit characteristics

that we would more closely identify with millennials or baby boomers. It's not an exact science.

My preferred rough sort of rule of thumb on this is that if you got through high school

without Google, your Generation X.

And if you got through college without Google, presuming you went to college right after

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