Cohen: Remembering the momentous year of 1968

Once in a generation, there comes a moment when everything changes. In the early 20th century, we might say that of 1914 and 1939, when both world wars began. Or 1929, when the markets crashed.
In the second half of the century, a pivotal year was 1968. The world seemed to come apart – shaken by war, revolution, assassination, protest, famine. It’s hard to believe so much could happen in so short a time, but 50 years ago, it did.
In the United States, the conventional wisdom was that