Category Archives: Gen Z
The Gen Z protests are nothing like 1968
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 13, 2026
- Gen Z
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The modern omnigrievance wants to destroy society, not build a new one.
Gen Z Wasn’t Born Fragile. We Made Them This Way
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 10, 2026
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An in-depth interview on El Podcast, 10 November.
What’s up with Gen Z?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 10, 2026
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I enjoyed speaking at the Together conference on 7 November, with a terrific panel of young thinkers: Ada Akpala, Maeve Halligan, Sebastian Moore and Connie Shaw.
‘Gen Z Rules!’ Understanding the riots sweeping Europe
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 3, 2026
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Joanna Williams reviews Growing Up in the Culture Wars: Identity and Generational Conflict. Williams writes: ‘The authors are careful not to suggest that young people today have it harder than those in the past. Clearly, having to stay at home during the Covid pandemic was not more dangerous than fighting on the front line in […]
New book explores how culture wars are shaping a generation
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 23, 2026
- Gen Z,Uncategorized
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Press release by Canterbury Christ Church University, 23 October.
How do we raise children when everything is politicised?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 21, 2026
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During a special live recording of Take Me Home at this year’s Battle of Ideas Festival, Hilary and Sebastian are joined by Jennie Bristow and Ellie Lee, authors of Growing Up in the Culture Wars. They explore fraying generational bonds and the factors such as work, sex and politics that shape young people’s transition into […]
Generation Expert: Gen Z Have Been Conditioned to Give Up!
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 15, 2026
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An in-depth interview with Elliot Bewick on the Next Generation podcast, about Growing Up in the Culture Wars.
Theo Hobson: ‘The trouble with humanities’
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 15, 2026
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Hobson wrote a thoughtful review of my new book Growing Up in the Culture Wars, co-authored with Ellie Lee, in the Spectator on 31 August. The review begins: ‘Sociology is an academic discipline that I generally steer clear of. It seems as full of trendy guff as Education. But there is a minority report, a subculture that […]
Boomers Didn’t Steal Your Future – This Did
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on January 18, 2026
- Baby Boomers,Gen Z,Millennials
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A long discussion of my book Stop Mugging Grandma on El Podcast, in December 2025.
Making up for lost time
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on April 5, 2025
- Coronavirus crisis,Education,Gen Z
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A new study, conducted with colleagues at Canterbury Christ Church University and published in the British Educational Research Journal, explores students’ quest to reclaim missed opportunities while adjusting to post-Covid life in higher education.
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