Old School: Fifteen Retro Revivals
Internationally, Arab Spring and the Occupy movement will be the enduring stories of 2011. In U.S. history, this year will be notable chiefly as a low-water mark for faith in American political institutions, although not if there’s less faith next year, which seems likely. But, in the annals of American popular culture, the now is all about the then.
- Jill Lepore lists the fifteen most interesting revivals: http://nyr.kr/sVGKlc
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