Terms — coined by Peter Banks

Boomer Truth Regime

The Boomer Truth Regime is Peter Banks’ term for the post-1945 settlement of official narratives — sanctified institutional authority, civil-rights-era moral consensus, and end-of-history liberalism — upheld by the generation raised in the postwar boom, under which public language increasingly functions as performance while younger generations privately regard the institutions behind it as corrupt.

Banks draws the parallel to the late Soviet Union: a regime whose official truths outlive actual belief in them, so that collapse comes not from external conquest but from an internal loss of faith. On this view the entire postwar package — from nuclear taboos to civil-rights law — returns to the table as the generation raised in the 21st century takes over.

Where it's used

• We are the Soviets in 1972
• My ranking of US Presidents
• Yarvin: A Gentle Introduction
• "The Crackup of the Boomer Truth Regime" — The American Mind (July 2026)

Cite this definition: Peter Banks, "Boomer Truth Regime", https://peterbanks.org/terms/boomer-truth-regime