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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 and wrote Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials (2017). Harris was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Life and work He was born in Santa Cruz, California and graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010. Harris is an editor at the online magazine The New Inquiry. He lives in Philadelphia. Harris was "heavily involved" in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In 2012, he pleaded guilty and was convicted of disorderly conduct for his participation in an October 2011 Occupy protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. The court case became "a significant focus of attention for its involvement of posts to social networking sites and legal arguments over who controls that material", as the prosecution sought to undermine his defense using his own Twitter posts which he had deleted. 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 Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2017. ISBN 978-0316510868. Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. Melville House. 2020. ISBN 9781612198378. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Little, Brown and Company. 2023. ISBN 9780316592031. See also Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman References External links Malcolm Harris on Twitter Harris' writing at The New Inquiry Harris' writing at Pacific Standard. Discover the Malcolm Harris popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Malcolm Harris books.