Reihan: '00s Nostalgia

By Ross Douthat
As 2007 draws to a close, it's time to steel ourselves for the '00s retrospectives. Remember Ellen Feiss? See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2007/10/reihan-00s-nostalgia/54875/ Possibly the greatest advertisement ever made, much better than the unreleased Ellen Feiss Powerbook video. But yeah, she still seems pretty stoned. What a totally strange decade. The world was collapsing, yet the culture was vibrant and vital. In the near future, The American Scene will have a mini-symposium on the '00s: what were the unique and likely to last cultural phenomena? The return of Weltanschauung politics, Web 2.0 and the democratization of culture, the death or transcendence of hip-hop, etc. ...

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