The Right-Wing offensive on health care and the concerted assault on government and any other institutions not dominated by free-market principles represents the high point of a strategy first put into place by conservative ideologues 50 years ago. Henry Giroux, author most recently of Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability, discusses the origins of today's Right-Wing extremism in the Powell Memo and conservative institutions' carefully executed plan to shift public debate to the right in critical educational and cultural arenas. What mistakes has the Left made in these same arenas and what lessons can be learned?