The Boomer Buster

The Boomer Buster is an LA Times article about researchers who are rethinking the impact of the Baby Boomers and the very idea of generations.

But a critical mass of new thinking has been gathering in the past few years, and with the rise of the Internet and the maturing of younger voices, the tenets of the Boomer Nation are quietly getting a closer look. Social scientists such as Males are only part of the equation. One of the hottest fields for historians at the moment is the study of the 1960s not as the cradle of liberalism (as many boomers would have it) but as the start of an era that begat the Reagan Revolution and America's red state/blue state divisions. In public health research, the symposia and medical journals recently have been devoted to drug addiction and AIDS among aging boomers. Critics are challenging boomer hegemony over what is and isn't "classic" rock music. (Blender magazine in November published a list of the "500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born," with an editor telling the New York Times that "the best music hasn't just been made by dead guys.")