|NUMBER 284||THE NEWSPAPER OF EDUCATION RIGHTS||SEPTEMBER 2009|
In this latest addition to the "Politically Incorrect Guide"
series, critic and playwright Jonathan Leaf takes a careful
second look at 1960s protest movements, the Warren Court, the
sexual revolution, drug culture, the Vietnam War, and more. Leaf
shows that most Americans in the 1960s were conservative, but a
radical minority has forever colored modern perceptions of the
decade. There is a corollary today. "A large number of student
radicals went on to graduate school in order to maintain their
[draft] deferments," Leaf remarks. "After completing a higher
degree, it made good career sense for them to become professors
and adopt the comfortable, bourgeois lifestyle they had spent
the previous decade denouncing." From positions of authority in
the academy, 60s radicals still disproportionately affect our
culture. Enthusiasts who liken Barack Obama to liberal icon John
F. Kennedy may not know that JFK advocated massive tax cuts on
both income and c