Remembering 1968

Remembering 1968 The student movement that set the stage for the center Right

AFTER 40 years, the year 1968 still brings to mind elite students, major universities, rebellion, the delegitimation of traditional authorities, cultural upheaval, the lifestyle revolution, marches for civil rights, anti-war protests, the drug culture, flower children, feminism, the search for personal meaning, and a last youthful gasp of the Marxist imagination. The year 1968 served a very spicy moral goulash – but where did all these seemingly disparate ingredients come from? And why did they emerge with such force at that particular time?

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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Remembering 1968 The student movement that set the stage for the center Right

AFTER 40 years, the year 1968 still brings to mind elite students, major universities, rebellion, the delegitimation of traditional authorities, cultural upheaval, the lifestyle revolution, marches for civil rights, anti-war protests, the drug culture, flower children, feminism, the search for personal meaning, and a last youthful gasp of the Marxist imagination. The year 1968 served a very spicy moral goulash – but where did all these seemingly disparate ingredients come from? And why did they emerge with such force at that particular time?