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A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?
  • Yo!

    The decade brought about the struggle for civil rights writ large and the anti-war movement. I would say that we didn't learn enough and not that the lessons weren't there to be learned.

    We are facing some of the same issues -- a malignancy in the White House, lives wasted in Iraq, the slow expansion of the split between rich and poor. So what are we going to do about it? Are we going to go inward and protect what we have from the greater world?