"The Conservative Case Against the Boomers/For bleakness, scope, and entropic finality, the progressive critique of the generation has nothing on the social-conservative one."

A column by Benjamin Wallace-Wells (in The New Yorker). 

In the view of an increasingly prominent cohort of Catholic intellectuals, Americans have, in the long span of the boomer generation, gone from public-spirited to narcotized, porn-addicted, and profoundly narcissistic, incapable not only of the headline acts of idealism to which boomers once aspired, such as changing the relations between the races or the sexes, but also of the mundane ones, such as raising children with discipline and care.... 

[Conservative writer Helen] Andrews... sums up the boomer legacy: “Drugged up, divorced, ignorant, and indebted, but at least they did it out of idealism.” This story, at least the way Andrews tells it, is about the establishment of a new aristocracy, and she structures it through six stories of prominent boomers: Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Jeffrey Sachs, Camille Paglia, Al Sharpton, and Sonia Sotomayor. 

Her view is top-down: these people engineered the boomer revolution, and their mistake was confusing their own wants and desires for universal ones. In particular, Paglia, a feminist and sex theorist, earns Andrews’s intellectual admiration and moral contempt, for defending pornography as virtuous... Andrews quotes Paglia, who notes that she sometimes sees prostitutes while walking to work. “ ‘Pagan goddess!’ I want to call out as I sidle reverently by.”...  

At the end of her chapter on Steve Jobs, Andrews mentions Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, from 1997, which Jobs seems to have conceived as a corporate, and perhaps even a personal, manifesto. Andrews quotes the script: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.” 

The insistence of incredibly powerful people that they are really outsiders, the optimism so grandiose it verges on predestination—this probably sounds recognizably like the boomers to you. But it also might more simply sound perfectly American. Untangling these two identities, boomer and American, isn’t much of a problem for Andrews, who seems convinced that both the country and the generation are headed for the Bad Place. ...

Here's the book, "Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster." I put that in my Kindle. 

ADDED: Excerpt from "Boomers": 

“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde,” Camille Paglia writes in the introduction to her first essay collection. “His battles are my battles, and there are echoes of his strategies and formulations throughout my work.” She wrote truer than she knew, for she has reenacted not only his battles but also his tragedy. Like Wilde, Paglia has dabbled in decadence as if it were a game. The pithy paradoxes, the valorization of glamour, the celebration of sexual daring, have to her been a way of striking a pose, a way to annoy all the academic frumps and feminist scolds who considered Madonna’s Sex book beneath their attention. Paglia’s tragedy, like that of her fin de siècle forebears, is that she toyed with forces that were much more dangerous than she imagined them to be, and they turned on her in the end.