The Student Movement

In the last few months, especially since the war in Vietnam and protests against it have both escalated, a number of commentators from many wings of opinion—right, center, and socialist—have expressed a great deal of doubt about and disapproval of developments within the student movement. Most of these commentators have been from an older generation of American political activity. For what it is worth, it may be useful to compare their perceptions with the perceptions of someone whose bas...