Slouching Towards Bethlehem | The Saturday Evening Post
In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.
© Ted Streshinsky/Corbis/Corbis via Getty images Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! Join SUPPORT THE POST [ Editor’s note: Joan Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” was first published in the September 23, 1967, edition of the Post . We republish it here as part of our 50th anniversary commemoration of the Summer of Love . Scroll to the bottom to see this story as it appeared in the magazine.] Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . . Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand . . . A
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