Malcolm Harris | |
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Born | 1988 (age 35–36) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Maryland |
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Malcolm Harris (born 1988)[1] is an American journalist, critic and editor, based in Philadelphia.[2] 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.
He was born in Santa Cruz, California and graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010.[3]
Harris is an editor at the online magazine The New Inquiry.[4] He lives in Philadelphia.
Harris was "heavily involved" in the Occupy Wall Street movement.[5] 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",[6][7][8][9] 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.[10][11][12][13] In it, he explores the economic, social, and political conditions and institutions that nurtured American millennials and shaped them into a distinct group.[2][14] 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.[2]