'60s

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In its second season, the smooth-talking cads and resilient ladies of "Mad Men" are emboldened and chastened by the tumultuous '60s.
  • Time to move on from Afghanistan

    We don't admire quitters, but no one wants to be the last person to believe in a mission, either
  • Through a bong, darkly

    A new book argues that the '60s counterculture achieved nothing of lasting importance. So why does the era continue to fascinate us?
  • Why is "Sgt. Pepper" so overhyped?

    The Beatles' magnum opus came out 40 years ago this week. Salon's David Marchese huddled with Gina Arnold to examine it anew.
  • Talkin' bout my generation

    A new book argues that the baby boomers were a "greater generation" than the one that beat the Depression and Hitler. But what did we really do?
  • "Drop City" by T.C. Boyle

    A group of stoned, free-loving hippies set up a commune in backwoods Alaska -- and discover that Nature is a lot crueler than they dreamed.
  • Dr. Hofmann's problem child turns 58

    It started causing trouble as a teen and has never really stopped. We can't name names, but its initials are LSD.
  • "Steal This Movie"

    This disgraceful biopic reduces yippie Abbie Hoffman to slogans and stunts.
  • Dinner at 8

    Where, oh where, are the children who can mix a decent vodka gimlet?
  • Ladies and gentlemen of the jury ...

    There stands before you a murderer -- the band that killed rock 'n' roll.
  • Letters to the Editor

    New Leftists Art Goldberg and Stew Albert fire back at David Horowitz
    Plus: Amen to Joyce Millman's "year in TV" round-up; is it little girls -- or their moms -- who buy pink toys?
  • "Crazy in Alabama"

    Antonio Banderas directs his wife, Melanie Griffith, in this little morsel of easily digestible nostalgia.
  • Sharps & flats

    Greenwich Village folk tribute covers Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and Tim Buckley. But how can Chrissie Hynde and Marshall Crenshaw, among others, forget that some art belongs to its creator?
  • "Songs are for People"

    Patti Smith talks about the people and the poetry in her new collection, 'Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future'
  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
  • Were the '60s a fraud?

    Gary Kamiya reviews two new books of revisionist culture criticism from The Baffler editors and asks: Was the '60s the fraud -- or its critics?
  • Brain Clock

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    An amateur Dylanologist takes on the bard's long-awaited "Time Out of Mind."
  • The Lateness of the Hour

  • Farewells & Fantasies

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