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1968: liberty or its illusion? 4

  24th May 2008  —  Issue 146
Many 68ers now feel ambivalent about their heritage. Was too much of value discarded? Were the hippies just carriers of a new strain of capitalism? What was the silent majority thinking? Prospect writers give their views

Every contribution to our symposium can be accessed directly by clicking on the name of the individual author below. You can also discuss issues raised by the symposium, and by our latest issue, on? First Drafts, Prospect’s editorial blog.

Bryan Appleyard, Arthur Aughey, Cheryll Barron, Peter Bazalgette, Vernon Bogdanor, Rudi Bogni, Joe Boyd, Samuel Brittan, Lesley Chamberlain, Stephen Chan, Robert Cooper, Emma Crichton-Miller, René Cuperus, William Davies, Meghnad Desai, Anthony Dworkin, Geoff Dyer, David Edgerton, Duncan Fallowell, Timothy Garton Ash, Anthony Giddens, Robert Gore-Langton, David G Green, Johann Hari, David Herman, Michael Ignatieff, Pico Iyer, Josef Joffe, Alan Johnson, Eric Kaufmann, Tim King, Denis MacShane, Jean McCrindle, Edward Mortimer, Onora O’Neill, PJ O’Rourke, Paul Ormerod, Mark Pagel, Ray Pahl, Jonathan Power,   Gideon Rachman, Jonathan Rée, Bridget Rosewell, Bob Rowthorn, Jacques Rupnik, Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Scruton, Jean Seaton, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Erik Tarloff, Tzvetan Todorov, Emily Young, Slavoj Zizek.



Parisian theatre

by Edward Mortimer

In the spring of 1968, my first year as assistant Paris correspondent for the Times, two front-page stories plopped straight into my lap: the Vietnam peace talks and, happening at the very same time in the same city, “les événements de mai.”

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