“Is Gen X actually the greatest generation?” The New York Times asks this week. The New York Times goes on to mention cultural markers such as Friends, Pulp Fiction and ER. I come to praise Amanda Fortini, author of the New York Times piece, not to harangue her. “President Obama is arguably the United States’ first president who is a member of Generation X,” Harvard Business Review noted in 2010. After Gen X came the Millennials, Generation Z and (the Latin alphabet now exhausted) Generation Alpha.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2025 08:10 UTC