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Your Weekly Guide to the Best National Review Magazine Articles from the '50s, '60s, and '70s

This Week's Featured Issue: June 4, 1968

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Mr. Thoreau's Timebomb
By Frederick K. Sanders

The central assertion of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" -- that a man's only obligation is to do what he thinks is right -- become a justification for the protests of the 1960s. Sanders argues that this is a new version of an ancient heresy. Read the article here.

Prometheus Unbound
By James Burnham

Burnham writes that the New Left on campuses in the 1960s was less concerned with the Marxist philosophy or loyalty to the Communist party than their predecessors had been. The "revolution" had become "a matter of action, of feeling, sentiment." Read the article here.

Notes for the Platform Committees
By William F. Buckley, Jr.

From "On the Right," WFB's suggestions on foreign and fiscal policy, education, civil disobedience, and labor for the '68 GOP platform. Read the piece here.

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