I have a difficult assignment: to describe, analyze and evaluate the new student movement—and to do so from the vantage point of one who has one foot in the new generation and one foot in the old. The task is complicated by the nature of the movement itself, by its ideological and organizational looseness, by the fact that it is both mood and movement. And it must be said that most of what has been written about the “New Left” in the mass media and even in the better political journals has been dismally ignorant. Some of the writers on the Left have viewed the student movement with a mixture of awe and indulgence, while those on the Right assail it as the reincarnation of communism.