Lessons for 2018 From One of America’s Most Tumultuous Years

It was a year marked by a racially coded law-and-order campaign pitted against a fierce social-justice resistance, the unrest and defiance of a "troubled and troublesome" young generation, questions about gun control in the wake of devastating violence, and the "fear and frustration and anger" that defined a presidential election.

That year was 1968—which saw the election of Richard Nixon; the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.