Canadian writer and The Cut columnist Amil Niazi joins us to discuss what happens when an entire generation follows their dreams, whether our feelings of economic instability are real or imagined, and having children (even a third!) while fighting against upgrade culture. Also, we stan Better Things, and we ask: Even if it’s not really OK, what if it is all going to be OK?

Links:

* MOFITA summer book club

* Should We Expect More From Dads? (and praise for Lucas Mann’s Attachments) (Hua Hsu in The New Yorker)

* Welcome To The Millennial Midlife Crisis (Amil Niazi in The Cut)

* Will I Ever Retire? Millennials Wonder What’s On The Other Side Of Middle Age (Amil Niazi in The Guardian)

* What Are Children For? (Anastasia Berg in The Cut)

* It’s Weird Times To Be A Happy Mother (Elissa Strauss in Slate)

* Follow Amil on X (formerly known as Twitter) here or her Substack Cry, Baby

Culture recs:

* Beach Read

* Pucking Around

* Nightbitch

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