1968: Fifty Years Later

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What is hard to convey today about 1968 is the texture of shock and panic that seized the world a half-century ago. What is even harder to grasp is that the chief political victor of that year was the counter-revolution.

May 8, 2018

1968: Paris in May

1968 was the definitive proof, if such were still needed, that the French Communist Party (PCF) had no interest in seizing power through revolution. But it also demonstrated that in this, the PCF was the perfect image of the class it represented, and vice versa.

April 19, 2018

1968: Enoch, Bageye, and Me

On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell completed my early education, confirming an unsettling belief that had begun to take shape in my six-year-old’s fertile imagination: my color vexed some people’s spirits.

April 4, 2018