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Malcolm Harris (born 1988) is an American journalist, critic and editor, based in Philadelphia. He is an editor at ''
The New Inquiry ''The New Inquiry'' is an online magazine of cultural and literary criticism, established by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein and Rachel Rosenfelt in 2009 and administered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation. The magazine's website updates da ...
'' and wrote ''Kids These Days: the Making of Millennials'' (2017). Harris was involved in the
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, in September 2011. It gave rise to t ...
movement.


Life and work

Harris is an editor at the online magazine ''
The New Inquiry ''The New Inquiry'' is an online magazine of cultural and literary criticism, established by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein and Rachel Rosenfelt in 2009 and administered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation. The magazine's website updates da ...
.'' He lives in
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. Harris was "heavily involved" in the
Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, in September 2011. It gave rise to t ...
movement. In 2012 a court case concerning his
disorderly conduct Disorderly conduct is a crime in most jurisdictions in the United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. Typically, "disorderly conduct" makes it a crime to be drunk in public, to " disturb the peace", or to loiter in certain are ...
at an October 2011 Occupy protest on the Brooklyn Bridge became "a significant focus of attention for its involvement of posts to social networking sites and legal arguments over who controls that material." Harris's 2017 book ''Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials'' is a social critique of American millennials as human capital. In it, he explores the economic, social, and political conditions and institutions that nurtured American millennials and shaped them into a distinct group. Yohann Koshy wrote in the ''Financial Times'' that Harris argues that "society conspires to make life worse for young people", that "millennials are producing lots of value at work that is not reflected in job quality or wages", and that much of this applies to Britain too.


Publications

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See also

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Growing Up Absurd ''Growing Up Absurd'' is a 1960 book by Paul Goodman on the relationship between American juvenile delinquency and societal opportunities to fulfill natural needs. Contrary to the then-popular view that juvenile delinquents should be led to re ...
'' by
Paul Goodman Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decen ...


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External links

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Harris' writing
at ''
The New Inquiry ''The New Inquiry'' is an online magazine of cultural and literary criticism, established by Mary Borkowski, Jennifer Bernstein and Rachel Rosenfelt in 2009 and administered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisation. The magazine's website updates da ...
''
Harris' writing
at '' Pacific Standard'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Malcolm American critics 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American writers Occupy Wall Street Place of birth missing (living people) Living people 1988 births