Derek Thompson

And when you put those things together, it seems like a perfect recipe for smartphone users always finding some reason to hate the establishment. So when you talk to young people and when you think about this clear across the board collapse in institutional trust, how much of this is actual institutional failure versus a technologically determined outcome due to the dynamics of media economics?

And when you put those things together, it seems like a perfect recipe for smartphone users always finding some reason to hate the establishment. So when you talk to young people and when you think about this clear across the board collapse in institutional trust, how much of this is actual institutional failure versus a technologically determined outcome due to the dynamics of media economics?

And when you put those things together, it seems like a perfect recipe for smartphone users always finding some reason to hate the establishment. So when you talk to young people and when you think about this clear across the board collapse in institutional trust, how much of this is actual institutional failure versus a technologically determined outcome due to the dynamics of media economics?

Yeah. Of their waking hours inside of technology in some way. Yeah. Exactly. When it comes to Gen Z politics, I feel like there are several claims that people often make that are conflated, and I want to disentangle them as best I can and present them to you for your evaluation. Claim number one is that young people are shifting right overall.

Yeah. Of their waking hours inside of technology in some way. Yeah. Exactly. When it comes to Gen Z politics, I feel like there are several claims that people often make that are conflated, and I want to disentangle them as best I can and present them to you for your evaluation. Claim number one is that young people are shifting right overall.

Yeah. Of their waking hours inside of technology in some way. Yeah. Exactly. When it comes to Gen Z politics, I feel like there are several claims that people often make that are conflated, and I want to disentangle them as best I can and present them to you for your evaluation. Claim number one is that young people are shifting right overall.

So in 2024, for example, young men and young women shifted at least 10 points toward the Republican Party. The second claim is that young men and young women are polarizing away from each other. So by some survey measures, young women today are more liberal than they used to be, and young men today are more Republican than they used to be. In your opinion,

So in 2024, for example, young men and young women shifted at least 10 points toward the Republican Party. The second claim is that young men and young women are polarizing away from each other. So by some survey measures, young women today are more liberal than they used to be, and young men today are more Republican than they used to be. In your opinion,

So in 2024, for example, young men and young women shifted at least 10 points toward the Republican Party. The second claim is that young men and young women are polarizing away from each other. So by some survey measures, young women today are more liberal than they used to be, and young men today are more Republican than they used to be. In your opinion,

writings and your research and you're talking with young people, what's real here? Are young people really becoming more conservative or does it only seem that way maybe because older generations are struggling to pin down their political identity?

writings and your research and you're talking with young people, what's real here? Are young people really becoming more conservative or does it only seem that way maybe because older generations are struggling to pin down their political identity?

writings and your research and you're talking with young people, what's real here? Are young people really becoming more conservative or does it only seem that way maybe because older generations are struggling to pin down their political identity?

There's a kind of outsized fear that young people in the U.S., because of the schism between young men moving into the Republican Party while young women, by some measures, are becoming more liberal year by year, There's some fear that the U.S. is going to retrace the gender politics of, say, South Korea, where you have this 4B movement. No dating, no sex, no marriage, no children.

There's a kind of outsized fear that young people in the U.S., because of the schism between young men moving into the Republican Party while young women, by some measures, are becoming more liberal year by year, There's some fear that the U.S. is going to retrace the gender politics of, say, South Korea, where you have this 4B movement. No dating, no sex, no marriage, no children.

There's a kind of outsized fear that young people in the U.S., because of the schism between young men moving into the Republican Party while young women, by some measures, are becoming more liberal year by year, There's some fear that the U.S. is going to retrace the gender politics of, say, South Korea, where you have this 4B movement. No dating, no sex, no marriage, no children.

This is a radical movement. This is not reflective of the general population. What is reflective of the general population is that Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. And so I think that's partly why it's highlighted this concern for what could happen if gender politics really go out of whack.

This is a radical movement. This is not reflective of the general population. What is reflective of the general population is that Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. And so I think that's partly why it's highlighted this concern for what could happen if gender politics really go out of whack.

This is a radical movement. This is not reflective of the general population. What is reflective of the general population is that Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. And so I think that's partly why it's highlighted this concern for what could happen if gender politics really go out of whack.

Do you think this is a completely overblown fear of older people who don't know what they're talking about? Or do you see signs of real political frustration among young people that goes beyond these sort of I should say here, do you see signs of real political frustration between young men and women that goes beyond the routine frustrations of just dating when you're 23, 24 years old?

Do you think this is a completely overblown fear of older people who don't know what they're talking about? Or do you see signs of real political frustration among young people that goes beyond these sort of I should say here, do you see signs of real political frustration between young men and women that goes beyond the routine frustrations of just dating when you're 23, 24 years old?