{"id":11533,"date":"2018-11-26T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11533"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:52:06","slug":"did-1968-win-the-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/did-1968-win-the-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Did 1968 Win the Culture War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">F<\/span>ifty years ago this year, the \u201960s revolution sought to overturn American customs, traditions, ideology, and politics.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201960s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair, and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But maybe the \u201960s, not the silent majority, won out after all. The world a half-century later looks a lot more like 1968 and what followed than what preceded it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the political and cultural agenda from that turbulent period \u2014 both the advances and the regressions \u2014 has long been institutionalized. The military draft, for good or bad, has remained defunct. There is greater transparency in politics, fewer smoke-filled rooms. Disabled children, once ostracized or dismissively labeled \u201cretarded,\u201d are now far better integrated into society and treated more ethically as special-needs kids. The rights of women, racial minorities, and the LGBT community are now widely accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Yet lifestyles have been radically altered \u2014 and often not for the good. Before the late \u201960s, most Americans married before having children; afterwards, not so much. One-parent households are now far more common.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/11\/1960s-cultural-political-agenda-institutionalized\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Fifty years ago this year, the \u201960s revolution sought to overturn American customs, traditions, ideology, and politics. The \u201960s radicals eventually grew older, cut their hair, and joined the establishment. Most thought their revolution had fizzled out in the early 1970s without much effect, as Americans returned to \u201cnormal.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[92,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-301","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12509,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-not-your-parents-revolution-how-todays-anarchists-differ-from-60s-protesters\/","url_meta":{"origin":11533,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Not your parents&#8217; revolution \u2014 how today&#8217;s anarchists differ from 60s protesters","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News In the\u00a01960s\u00a0and early \u201970s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country\u2019s attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. 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