1960s

The Myths of the Sixties

I have grown ever more weary and ever more irritated by the way the sixties have been routinely characterized, mythologized, and marketed. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2024

Once again, college students are in angry rebellion—against almost everything, it seems. I remember the feeling. But it is more than half a century since I smelled the anger and the tear gas. Here are my best recollections of an earlier time of rage, revolt, and high expectations. It is 1965, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2021

The Chicago Seven and the Long Sixties

by Fred Siegel

The trial of the Chicago Seven was an important step on the way to abandoning evidence-based arguments in favor of emotive appeals. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2020

An Encounter With My Past

by Peter Hitchens

For the past few weeks I have been confined by state-sponsored panic to my hometown, for day after brilliantly sunny day. Continue Reading »

19 May 2020

The Winter of Love

by Matthew Schmitz

No one who welcomed the sixties as a liberation can understand what it has been like to grow up in their wake. Authorities mouth the rhetoric of revolution, shocking slogans have become clichés, and the anthems of Woodstock and Altamont sell sedans to aging Baby Boomers. A banner at the Paris . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

The 60s in Plato’s Eyes: a Democratic Revolution against an Oligarchic Culture

by Carl Scott

Peter was fishing for my responses on Christianity and its relation to modernity’s three stages in America AND on whether or not America is more oligarchic than democratic according to Plato’s sense of the terms. Well, that first topic is huge, but even as I focus upon the second one . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2011

Carl’s Rock Songbook #22: Joe Pug, “I Do My Father’s Drugs”

by Carl Scott

Songbook #20 tried to talk about the 9-11 interregnum and how it dealt a blow to rock’s radicalism, but in retrospect, it was really more about the nineties revival-of and eventual disenchantment-with such radicalism, with 9-11 seeming to serve as the final nail in the coffin. And Songbook #21 . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Sep 2011

Gene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy

by Michael Novak

Bobby was already my favorite among the Kennedy brothers, the one I felt a closer bond to. Continue Reading »

15 Aug 2006

The Bad Old Days

by Paul Hollander

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixtiesby peter collier and david horowitzsummit books, 352 pages, $19.95 The retroactive glorification of the 1960s has been gathering momentum over the last decade. It reflects and in turn re-enforces what has become the conventional wisdom of a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1990