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354: Paris 1968: The Return of De Gaulle (Part 2)
The Rest Is History
The Influence of Roger Scruton on Conservatism
The events of May 1968 in Paris seem so exciting and intoxicating, you know, indelibly French. But actually they are eclipsed massively by what happened in Prague - which is devastating for the moral claims of the Soviet Union or probably communism generally. The Mexico Olympics, there is a terrible massacre in Mexico City,. I think something like 43 people die in the riots that follow in the police versus rioters in American cities. And again, one of these events of this extraordinary year, or indeed in America, Martin Luther King is assassinated.
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