FROM ISSUE NUMBER 15 - SPRING 1969 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
The twilight of authority
THE most striking fact in the present period of revolutionary change is the quickened erosion of the traditional institutional authorities that for nearly a millennium have been Western man’s principal sources of order and liberty. I am referring to the manifest decline of influence of the legal system, the church, family, local community, and, most recently and perhaps most ominously, of school and the university.
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