You Don't Need a Weatherman

"The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret."

The New York Times runs an op-ed by William Ayers.


"To me, though, he's just a shallow rich kid who took himself and his revolutionary rhetoric much too seriously, helped inspire people to do things that got them killed, and helped to discredit the anti-war movement and the left as a whole."

But in response, Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings takes Ayers apart.

As does Katha Pollitt in The Nation.