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This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution

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This Isn’t Your Father’s Left-Wing Revolution — Protestors against the United States' participation in the Vietnam War block the offices and employees of the American conscription headquarters in Washington on May 3, 1971. AFP via Getty Images

Victor Davis Hanson

6/10/2021|Updated: 12/29/2023

Commentary

Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed they were going to either take over America or destroy it.

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Victor Davis Hanson

Author

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”