As Boomers have begun turning fifty, the public discourse has become less refined and conciliatory and more impassioned and moralistic. Why? The midlife Prophet is replacing the midlife Artist.

In short, seemingly everything became political in the U.S. around 2014–2015—even before Trump. That was stressful for everyone, but it may have been more stressful for Millennials than for older generations. For one thing, they were forming their political identity at a time of strife and division. For another, they had been using social media for

But what happens when systemic change doesn’t seem to come? When we’re burned out by another traumatic election cycle, and all we want to do is retreat into our homes and judge our Trump-supporting neighbors? Baby boomers have come to realize that their adult children’s lives likely won’t be as economically prosperous as their own. But many millenn