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Todd Gitlin

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1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What haunted America was not the misty specter of revolution but the solidifying specter of reactionary backlash.

by Todd Gitlin via New York Review of Books on May 8, 2018
Rage Against the Machine

An excerpt from a novel by Todd Gitlin that reimagines the violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

by Todd Gitlin via Smithsonian on January 1, 2018
Conservatives Say Campus Speech Is Under Threat. That’s Been True for Most of History.

There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.

by Todd Gitlin via Washington Post on August 11, 2017

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SDS protestors parody the Columbia administration's suspension of students in 1968.

Kids These Days

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

by D. G. Hart via Law & Liberty on June 5, 2024

Illustrative grid rid of students with the faces represented by various colors, fabric patterns, and textures.

How Affirmative Action Was Derailed by Diversity

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

by Richard Thompson Ford via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 2, 2022

Mark Rudd addresses students as president of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society on May 3, 1968.

Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

by Mark Rudd, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on March 29, 2021

John Wesley Harding at Fifty: WWDD?

Bob Dylan's confessional album resisted the political radicalism and activism of 1967.

by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 13, 2018

1968’s Chaos: The Assassinations, Riots and Protests that Defined Our World

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.

by Michael S. Rosenwald via Washington Post on January 1, 2018

The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

by Jefferson Cowie via Public Books on October 31, 2017

Hell No, He Must Go!

What anti-Trump protesters can learn from the successes, and mistakes, of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

by David Kieran via Slate on February 7, 2017

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