The

The Hello and behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood, a comforting return to orthodoxy,

two guests after last week's radical departure. Colette Shade will talk about her new book in the

Y2K era. The days where the internet was young and effortless prosperity seemed eternal.

And Tim Shorok will explain what's been going on in South Korea, where her right-wing president

declared martial law,

a move that was promptly reversed by the National Assembly, which just as promptly impeached him,

but he's using his palace guard to prevent his arrest for insurrection.

It's easy to get nostalgic for the late 1990s.

I published a book 22 years ago that denounced the stock market bubble and the new economy mania of the

time as a ludicrous fraud, but given the darkness of our present, my mind does drift back

with some pleasure to the time of supermodels, indie rock, IPOs, and dial-up modems.

Who can blame me, given the imminence of Trump and the horrifying fires in Los Angeles?

My friend Colette Shade is just out with a book, Y2K, How the 2000s Became Everything, Essays on the Future

that Never Was, published by Day Street Books.

It's an engaging and thoughtful mix of personal essay and cultural history about a period that has seen remarkably little scrutiny.

Besides the book, Colette has written on a variety of topics,

from the racist history of the Maryland State Song to Edith Wharton

for publications like Interview, The New Republic, The Baffler, and Gawker.

Colette Shade.

The White UK era was more than just a transition from December 31st, 99, to January 1st, 2000. How do you date it?

I date it from 1997 through 2008. So basically the rise of the dot-com bubble and the popping of the

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