The Sixties

MIB3 = A Lot of Old but Very Little New

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.29.2012

Jackie K. Cooper

Perhaps the makers of Men in Black thought it had been long enough to pull out some of the same special effects and characters and sell them as new. It hasn't.

Barney Rosset U.

William O'Rourke | Posted 05.01.2012

William O'Rourke

Upon his recent death, I realized I had matriculated in the Barney Rosset School of Literature. Publishers played a unique role for the '60s. They set the curriculum for a generation of curious and avaricious readers such as myself.

The Biggest Deja Vu Moments Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.30.2011

The past has never been as easy to cut and paste as it was in 2011. Two decades ruled this inaugural aught -- the 1990s and the 1960s. The 90s -- ...

How the Movies Saved My Life

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.17.2012

Tom Engelhardt

I now write about our American wars without ever having visited a war zone. There, in the '50s and early '60s, I advanced with the marines and the Russians, bombed Tokyo but also experienced (however briefly) Hiroshima after it was atomized.

Zen and the Art of Occupy Wall Street

Richard Schiffman | Posted 01.12.2012

Richard Schiffman

The mood has changed in the OWS encampment from early euphoria to one of hunkering down for the long siege. It is getting cold, people are falling sick, squabbling over space, stuff is being stolen, nerves are fraying.

A Reunion And A Flirtation In Sixties Hong Kong

Carole Mallory | Posted 01.07.2012

Carole Mallory

Hong Kong was a series of peaks and valleys. It had dramatically tall buildings juxtaposed against narrow streets. The harbor of Kowloon was just on the other side of the island and we went there for lunch on a sampan with Harry.

The Movement Next Time

Bill Zimmerman | Posted 12.20.2011

Bill Zimmerman

We veterans of the Sixties have become encrusted with doubt. I'm putting mine aside and going to Wall Street. This kernel of activism might spawn a powerful populist movement, and if it does, I want to help it along.

Sixties Redux at Occupy Wall Street

Alan Singer | Posted 12.13.2011

Alan Singer

I think the best thing that can come out of Occupy Wall Street is that a new generation, like the generation of the sixties, will learn to organize people.

Confessions Of A Pan Am Stewardess

Carole Mallory | Posted 11.25.2011

Carole Mallory

My handbag was a pharmacy when it wasn't a bar stocked with mini liquor bottles pinched from the plane.

Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 10.06.2011

Cynthia Ellis

Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood have resurrected, cinematically, the pivotal moment when our country went from Mad Men to HAIR.

PHOTOS: 7 Most Overrated Things About The Sixties

Mark Juddery | Posted 09.19.2011

Mark Juddery

The sixties were the decade of change, the decade of cool, the decade of excitement... and the decade of hype.

Bob Dylan's Asia Tour: Has Freedom Lost Its Voice?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.11.2011

John W. Whitehead

The news that Bob Dylan would embark on a concert tour of Asia had many waiting to see what, if anything, he would say to audiences long oppressed by their governments. So far, the so-called voice of freedom has remained mute.

Is Norton Simon Show A Big Lie?

Mat Gleason | Posted 06.09.2011

Mat Gleason

The Norton Simon Museum has the best collection of art in Southern California. This is the last museum that should ever have to acquire modern and con...

The (Untelevised) Revolution Next Door

James Block | Posted 05.25.2011

James Block

I caught a glimpse of the future last weekend in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. For those of you who haven't spent time there yet, it would ...

'You Say You Want a Revolution'

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan Singer

Not all revolutionaries and revolutions are remembered with the fondness of Byron and Guevara.

"Rain" On Their Parade: Why the NY Times review of "Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles On Broadway" is All Wet

James Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2011

James Rotondi

In his hugely condescending review of the newly opened show, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway, ("Another Long and Winding Detour," Oct. 26, ...

Capturing an Era In The Age of Music Photography

Ethan Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Ethan Russell

Above: 1. The Beatles by Ethan Russell © Apple Records 2. The Who © Ethan Russell. Jerry Lee Lewis © Ethan Russell. "Please allow me to intro...

Mad Men Season 4, Ep 4: The Rejected

Janet Turley | Posted 05.25.2011

Janet Turley

Peggy steps out of her day job and into the beatnik nightlife, entering a world divorced from her pragmatism, where she doesn't have to fake virginity to win a man's attention.

Con Games: A Primer on Patriotism for the Right

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Conniff

Here's a shout-out to you true Americans on the birthday of our country, but it comes with a smack upside the head to your national nativist narrative.

Slackers At Midlife In 'The Ask'

The New York Times | AO Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

"We were stuck between meanings. Or we were the last dribbles of something. The fall of the Soviet Union, this was, the death of analog. The beginning...

Breathe in, breathe out

David Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

David Horton

People have suggested oxygen starvation before, but the new study brings our old friend CO2 into the equation. High CO2 causes the bright lights and other hallucinations in patients suffering heart attacks.

Idealism, Conscience And The Spiritual Left

William Horden | Posted 11.17.2011

William Horden

Rooted deep in the grain of American culture, the Spirtual Left has long acted as the progressive conscience of the nation, championing from the beginning causes like abolition and women's rights.

Greece and the Global Sixties

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Hayden

It's important to write Greece into the history of the Sixties, and all the countries of the global South who have been neglected due to the media's preference to obsess over music, marijuana, long hair, lost bras, and the end of innocence.

Share Your Sixties Memories

Posted 05.25.2011

The decade of Civil Rights, the women's movement, the environmental movement, and JFK turns 50 this year. That same decade was also the era of Woodsto...

The Sixties Turn 50

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Green

Having reprised the past, miserable decade -- bracketed by 9/11 and The Great Recession -- let us also take note of the 50th anniversary last week of the start of probably the most prophetic and influential decade in memory. Yes, The Sixties.