“Traditionally, young people imitated their elders for a simple reason: old people held the power. But they no longer have it.”
More from Robert Pogue Harrison
“No society on earth comes close to matching America’s youthful imagination, its liberation…”
“We have never before been so young, nor so old.”
“Lolita represents a different cultural type than her ancestors. She is not just an…”
“Language does not arise from a need to escape but from a desire to enter, not from frowns…”