Martha Thomases

Media goddess Martha Thomases blogs at “Brilliant Disguise,” mdwp.malibulist.com, and is the author of the Dakota North comic books. She is currently the chair of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute Board of Directors.

My Favorite Issue: WIN No. 200, 1974

Here’s what I think when I remember the 200th issue of WIN magazine:

We were right.

It is the conventional wisdom of many in today’s popular culture that the antiwar hippie movement was a monumental failure. It was, they say, the precursor to the selfishness of the “Me Decade” that followed.

They are wrong.