Hippy Wars: Some Things Are Worth Fighting For with author Celia Gregory

About this episode

Celia Gregory on the sixties' hidden contradiction — a movement built on peace that was, underneath, a generation at war with its own inheritance. Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host, James Navé. This week: novelist Celia Gregory, whose new book Hippie Wars turns the peace-and-love sixties inside out, tracing how a generation's mobility, drugs, and communes were shadowed by Vietnam, the draft, and inherited trauma. Gregory, raised in London and steeped in yoga, Osho, and marine conservation, connects the sexual revolution's first pill-era freedoms to today's reckonings with consent and equality. The conversation turns to Taos, where she now lives beside Pueblo land and a mountain…