This month the Jacobin time machine is taking us back to 1968, the high water mark of the "New Left" socialist resurgance in the 1960s.

• Half the Way with Mao Zedong, by Paul Heideman. How Students for a Democratic Society went from a mass movement to embracing ghe politics of self-destruction.
• When the Old World Unraveled, by Helena Sheehan. How the movements of the 1960's shook politics, culture, and thinking, but failed to bring about the revolution.
• Year of the Zombie, by Eileen Jones. "Night of the Living Dead" showed a new society devouring the old.

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