Sous les Pavés, la Plage!

"The real legacy of May ’68, as we see in France today, is individualism, the rejection of civic sense and ideology, the rehabilitation of the idea that personal and financial success is a worthy pursuit—in short, a revival of capitalism. To borrow an expression of Lenin’s, we were useful idiots. Indeed, the uprising was more a counterrevolution than a revolution."

Jean-Claude Guillebaud considers les évènements de Mai '68 in The New York Times.

And Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times says she is tired of 1968 and all that.