The Issue at a Glance

I’m Watching Myself (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-017-9676-y)

Mark Bauerlein, Emory University

In the first entry of this issue’s special section, “Now on Then: The Fiftieth Anniversary of 1968,” Mark Bauerlein uses Norman Mailer’s account of participating in 1967’s antiwar March on the Pentagon in his Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History to describe the differences between the social and political demonstrations of the 1960s and the self-absorbed, “highly personalized” campus protests staged today.

The Road to Who We Are (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12129-017-9678-9)

Sondra Farganis, emerita, The New School

Sondra Farganis remembers her role as academic and civil rights and antiwar advocate at “the dawn of the counterculture” with pride and a sense of accomplishment. While always aware that such activism might bring about “a lot of good,” Farganis has come to “detest the closing down”