Editing Todd Gitlin (section)

== Quotes ==
{{quote|My generation of the [[New Left]] — a generation that grew as the [Vietnam] war went on — relinquished any title to patriotism without much sense of loss. All that was left to the Left was to unearth righteous traditions and cultivate them in universities. The much-mocked political correctness of the next academic generations was a consolation prize. We lost — we squandered the politics — but won the textbooks.|''Varieties of Patriotic Experience''}}
{{quote|[T]hose who still cling to gauzy dreams about untainted militancy need to remember all the murders committed in the name of various radical ideologies that accomplished exactly nothing for the victims of racism.|"Paraphrasing the '60s" ''Los Angeles Times'', January 27, 2007}}