1968: Lessons Learned

Dissent’s editors asked a number of leading writers and intellectuals of the left to respond to the following questions: “Nineteen sixty-eight was one of the most tumultuous years in the history of the modern left. In this, its fortieth-anniversary year, we ask, What is living, what is dead, and what is hobbling and wheezing, in the many-faceted, transcontinental legacy of ’68? Please don’t reminisce (or don’t only reminisce) or recount your personal engagements. Tell us inst...