1968/2008

The organizers of this year’s protest against the Democratic National Convention’s meeting in Denver has taken on the unfortunate banner of http://www.recreate68.org/
I wonder how this ‘framing’ will impact the entire event?

Re-Create ‘68?
by Ira Chernus
The coming of 2008 has triggered a spate of articles about how we were 40 years ago, in 1968. 40 seems to be a magic number, packing some powerful symbolism. Maybe it goes back to the Bible. Have we been wandering, since 1968, 40 years in the wilderness? Is there some promised […]

Still Reeling After All These Years
By BOB HERBERT
It promised to be a very good year. But then anything would be better than 1967, with its angry kids burning the flag, and the war raging, and American cities going up in flames one after another.
A Page 1 headline in The New York Times said: “World Bids […]