Is it that the people who believe crazy things in the sixties didn't matter because they didn't have power, and because twe didn't have a way of organizing themselves? I don't know. And even when you look at the sola intellectual o, i agree with you that actually often, you know, what the guy of the gas station thinks is much more sensible than what somebody who recently got a postq degree from a fancy university of things. But i wonder whether that was the case in the fifties too. We had a lot of intellectuals who made really shameful excuses for joseph starlen,. "I can't imagine how we're going to sustain these very expensive
Caitlin Flanagan, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is one of America's most incisive essayists. In her articles about a wide range of topics including modern motherhood, the politics of higher education, and the state of the abortion debate, she skewers consensus views with her trademark wit.
In this week’s conversation, Caitlin Flanagan and Yascha Mounk discuss her coming-of-age in 1960s Berkeley, the evolution of freedom of speech, and whether America has a future.
This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
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