Tag: 1960s Movements
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning 2025 film One Battle After Another sparked a spirited debate on the left over its portrayal of a fictional group of revolutionaries known as the French 75. Some read the movie as a call to arms against Trump’s fascistic policies while others interpreted it as...
Leary Helped Destroy the 1960s New Left by Turning the Youth onto Drugs
During the mid-1960s, as political activism against the Vietnam War and other social ills skyrocketed, Dr. Timothy Leary, a former University of California at Berkeley and Harvard professor, traveled the U.S. urging young people to “turn...
On April 29, American conservative firebrand David Horowitz died at age 86 after a prolonged battle with cancer.
When the news broke, tributes came pouring in on right-wing social media, with everyone from Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a young Horowitz protégé,...
New study based on declassified records reveals paranoia about subversion in conservative states that resulted in serious constitutional violations
In April 1967, legendary Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael gave a fiery speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, pointing attention to the systemic racism in American life, to the...
A noted historian says those three letters are C-I-A. And even more, that Lennon was betrayed by Yoko Ono. Far-fetched? Before you scoff, look at the evidence this respected professor has finally decided to release after sitting on it for 41 years.
The Sixties era officially ended just before...
