Malcolm Harris

Malcolm Harris (born 1988)[1] is an American journalist, critic and editor, based in Philadelphia.[2] He is an editor at The New Inquiry and wrote Kids These Days: the Making of Millennials (2017). Harris was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Life and work

Harris is an editor at the online magazine The New Inquiry.[3] He lives in Philadelphia.

Harris was "heavily involved" in the Occupy Wall Street movement.[4] In 2012, he pleaded guilty and was convicted of disorderly conduct for his participation in an October 2011 Occupy protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. The court case became "a significant focus of attention for its involvement of posts to social networking sites and legal arguments over who controls that material",[5][6][7][8] as the prosecution sought to undermine his defense using his own Twitter posts which he had deleted.

Harris's 2017 book, Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, is a social critique of American millennials as human capital.[9][10][11][12] In it, he explores the economic, social, and political conditions and institutions that nurtured American millennials and shaped them into a distinct group.[2][13] Yohann Koshy wrote in the Financial Times that Harris argues that "society conspires to make life worse for young people", that "millennials are producing lots of value at work that is not reflected in job quality or wages", and that much of this applies to Britain too.[2]

Publications
  • Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2017. ISBN 978-0316510868.
  • Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. Melville House. 2020. ISBN 9781612198378.[14]
  • Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Little, Brown and Company. 2023. ISBN 9780316592031.

See also

References
  1. "'Kids These Days' Convinces You That Millennials Aren't Ruining Everything". www.wbur.org. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  2. Koshy, Yohann (3 November 2017). "Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris — no free brunch". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  3. Illing, Sean (4 February 2019). "Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism". Vox. Archived from the original on 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  4. "Kids These Days and iGen: two competing visions of what makes a millennial". www.newstatesman.com. 13 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  5. Buettner, Russ (12 December 2012). "Malcolm Harris Pleads Guilty Over 2011 March". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  6. "Judge: Twitter Must Turn Over Protester's Tweets Or Face Hefty Fine". HuffPost. 11 September 2012. Archived from the original on 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  7. Zetter, Kim (27 August 2012). "Twitter Fights Back to Protect 'Occupy Wall Street' Protester". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  8. Williams, Matt (14 September 2012). "Twitter complies with prosecutors to surrender Occupy activist's tweets". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  9. Shine, Jacqui (26 November 2017). "Won't Get Fooled Again: Malcolm Harris's "Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  10. "Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials". TheHumanist.com. 26 April 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  11. Mehta, Stephanie (5 January 2018). "Review". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  12. "How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  13. "The Kids Aren't Alright". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-09-28. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  14. Maxton, Ian (2020-04-02). "Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: by Malcolm Harris". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
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