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It’s taken a toll on Ethan’s personal life. He’s been with his partner for seven years, but they’ve spent much of that time treading water. They want kids, but without the financial security of a tenure-track position, it’s daunting. “That decision is on hold and may never happen,” he said. He’s always anxious the grant money might dry up. “I don’t... See more

You can’t call for something for years and then complain why people say it exists: A shot at the left

I’m an equal opportunity sort (ha!), so let’s take a few shots at the left. You can’t A) demand for years that institutions make balancing the race and gender of their staff compositions a priority, and B) then express disbelief when people... See more

Have I occasionally felt aggrieved by this or that thing that has occurred to me over the course a decade-plus of attempting to publish a book, sell a screenplay and/or get a tenure-track job? Sure. Who hasn’t? Trying to turn blood into a diamond can feel like a soul-sucking pursuit regardless of your race, age or sexual orientation.

Is it optimism that’s the distinguishing factor between Millennials and Zoomers? The mindset I associate most with my generation is “do what you love.” When I was an adolescent, many of us truly had it ingrained into us that we deserved to make a living—no, a lucrative living—by fulfilling our passion. Anything else made you a failure, or worse, an... See more

Once it became clear just how dead the millennial socialist project really was, he gradually faded into the damp Rebecca Solnitty vocabulary of a defeated left, Believing in Hope and Hoping for Belief. (There but for the grace of God.) But back in 2010, writing stupid tweets about killing all white people was part of that package. This is not ideal... See more

So, bully for me trying to get a tenure-track job in an English department while also attempting to sell a pilot (or feature or whatever) while also attempting to publish a novel. Yet it’s not because I’m a white dude that’s the problem. This is only a symptom of a much, much larger issue. The trap that Savage falls into is that the ruling class... See more

“What troubles me is that a lot of thriving white millennial men have had to follow the Josh Hawley path, where you have to leave liberal America,” an old friend, the father of two biracial children, told me. “I don't want to do that. Liberal America is my home. But if everyone says, this is not the place for you, what are you supposed to do?”

Over the past two years I’ve spoken with dozens of white male millennials, excavating hopes and dreams, disappointments and resentments. To a man, they insisted on anonymity. There were frenzied pre-publication negotiations over what personal details I could include, back-and-forths over words and phrases, requests to change pseudonyms to sound... See more

Mostly I’m annoyed at myself. Because instead of settling down, proposing to my then-girlfriend (now wife), and earning a steady income that might support a family, I spent a decade insisting the world treat me fairly, when the world was loudly telling me it had no intention of doing so. I could see what was happening—I was being told point-blank... See more