"Here, said Gitlin, is why: 'The tectonic plates that broke loose in the '60s
were extremely deep and were holding a lot of social and cultural tension that
had been locked in place. And once those plates started moving, they remade the
landscape. But the tensions are still in play.'"
Robin Abcarian in the Los Angeles Times discusses how the 1960s influence today's politics.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
"Every Time I Assume that It's All Over, It's Back"
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1960s,
2010s,
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Gitlin,
Obama,
political history,
politics,
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