PROJECT

to Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote those words in 1994 to describe the fate of the “poor bastards” born at the turn of this century, but it hasn’t been so bad. Consider the Americans born in the year 2000, the first natives of the brand-new millennium, who emerged screaming into a future of post-everything possibility, a time of budget surpluses and “the end of history” and this crazy newish thing called the, and as these first natives of the brand-new millennium turn 20, that strange way station between childhood and adulthood, it’s only fitting to take stock of where they’ve been and where they’re going.