Stephen Schwartz dances on HST's grave

In The Weekly Standard.

I'm not going to defend Thompson because i never cared for his stuff. (If you want to read more favorable views check out Tom Wolfe and Michael Bane.

No. Here i only want to defend my generation-- those awful baby boomers.

In his opening paragraph Schwartz hopes that HST's death "may definitively mark the conclusion of the chaotic 'baby-boomer' rebellion that began in the 1950s and crested in the 1960s, and which was dignified with the title of 'the counter-culture.'"

How exactly did the boomers start a revolution before most of us entered grade school?

The list of counter-cultural villains-- Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Thompson-- are far too old to be boomers.

Instead of blaming boomers for the counter-cultural rebellion, shouldn't we look at their elders who praised and promoted the Beats and their progeny? The sainted Lionel Trilling, after all, was instrumental in keeping Ginsberg out of jail when he was arrested for possession of stolen property while at Columbia.