Category Archive: 1980s

Privatizing the All Volunteer Army: Gender and Families in the 1990s and Early Aughts

[Editor’s note: This is the final installment in ToM’s three part series on social welfare policies in the […]

Feminism, Evangelicalism, and Social Welfare in Ronald Reagan’s Military: Part II of Jennifer Mittelstadt and The Rise of the Military Welfare State

[Editor’s note: This is part II of ToM’s three part series on the AVF via Jennifer Mittelstadt’s recent […]

Transforming the Military Amidst Austerity: The 1970s and the All Volunteer Army in Jennifer Mittelstadt’s The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Part I)

In 1974, in the wake of the nation’s retreat from Vietnam and the institution of the all volunteer […]

ToM’s Cultural Christmas Hits

Well, it’s that time of year again. If you’re Protestant or Catholic, you struggle with the stresses of […]

Confessions of a Middle-Aged Millennial

Occasionally, when I’m speaking to a class of 100 18-year-olds, I make the mistake of referring to them […]

Generational Narcissism?: Less than Zero, Gen X, and Why Millenials Really Aren’t All That Bad.

Over the past couple months or to be more accurate years, numerous commentators have bemoaned the apparent narcissism […]

From South Gate to L.A. Live: Demographic Change, Homeowner Ethos and Redevelopment in Southeastern Los Angeles

When Becky Nicolaides chairs or comments on a panel, people show up. The author of the now seminal My […]

A Clear Blue Vision: L.A. Light Rail and Twenty Five Years of the Blue Line

In a 2012 interview with transit scholar Ethan Elkind, Richard Stanger, former Los Angeles County Transit Commission rail […]