I’m not all about self-promotion (just mostly about it) but here’s a link to an article I wrote at Campus Progress, an online web-magazine for college progressives. The article is a response to a different and silly piece by a writer named Courtney Martin, who accuses our entire generation of not being angry and active enough about political issues. Needless to say, I disagreed. The relevant Georgetown factor is that my response grew out of a blog post I wrote here almost a year ago, and obviously my own first-hand knowledge of student activism comes from spending my time reporting on the work of our own various activist groups. Anyways, a query: do you think college students, and Georgetown students, are doing enough to change the world? Or are we co-opted by the man?
– Tim Fernholz, Editor in Chief
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November 27th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I enjoyed the article. What irritates me is that the boomers expect my generation to adopt the tactics that a minority of them employed almost a half-century ago. The spirit of protest, at least in its full force, is not something they have maintained, and thus they have given us few examples of widespread activism during our lifetime. This argument is, like so many others that wax poetic about the “good old days,” a demonstration of how out of touch older generations are. Don’t tell me that my generation’s activism hasn’t seen results.