Pseudo-Optimate. Dextrogeorgist. Liberal. YIMBY. "Density Extremist". Neocon abroad. Dedicated to the conquest of America by Massachusetts.
Jun 21, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This was an excellent blog post. As I commented on it, I think the starting point should be the fall of the Berlin Wall. A whole bunch of trends begin at around that point: Boomers inheriting power from the Greatest, the crime decline, the rise of the mass-market computer... 1/n
@Scholars_Stage asks: what is the end date of the period going to be? We haven't yet met it, but there's a strong sense it's coming soon. While cheap, shallow generational analyses are common, the period from about 1990 to 202X (to be determined is the Boomer Age. 2/n
Apr 4, 2019 • 39 tweets • 7 min read
OK, fuck it, I said I'd DM @AlanMCole about the Chinese version of the American college admissions graft, but he's surely not the only one who'll want to know.
So: Winthrop teaches less-than-stellar Chinese rich kids: the thread.
I taught English in China for a little over half a year in a large city of over ten million people before I decided to quit. I should have stayed out the full year and at least saved the cash, but I didn't, for various reasons. 2/n
