The Lost Generation: The War on White Men

This podcast synthesizes the core arguments and evidence from Jacob Savage’s article, “The Lost Generation,” which posits that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, institutionalized around the pivotal year of 2014, systematically disadvantaged an entire cohort of white male millennials across high-status professional fields. The analysis reveals a profound generational schism: while established Boomer and Gen-X white men largely retained their positions of power—often implementing DEI policies—their millennial counterparts faced a landscape of explicit and implicit exclusion…