People watching these things think of 1968, which is apt enough.
On the other hand, the Civil War analogy seems too linear, too coherent, too automatic-a cliché, even.
Anarchists out of Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent trade germs with angry blacks and young whites on skateboards or $1,900 bikes.
An angry crowd tends to become a mob, and a mob tends to smash windows, to loot and burn.
People in cities around the country marched peacefully in a good cause but, on the other hand, many were inclined to rationalize or minimize behavior much less salutary-looting and burning and tearing up cities and destroying businesses large and small, some that their owners had spent a lifetime in building.
The bravest people I knew when I was young were the civil rights workers in the South.
City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a leading free-market think tank.
On the other hand, the Civil War analogy seems too linear, too coherent, too automatic-a cliché, even.
Anarchists out of Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent trade germs with angry blacks and young whites on skateboards or $1,900 bikes.
An angry crowd tends to become a mob, and a mob tends to smash windows, to loot and burn.
People in cities around the country marched peacefully in a good cause but, on the other hand, many were inclined to rationalize or minimize behavior much less salutary-looting and burning and tearing up cities and destroying businesses large and small, some that their owners had spent a lifetime in building.
The bravest people I knew when I was young were the civil rights workers in the South.
City Journal is a publication of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a leading free-market think tank.
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