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A Politics of National Sacrifice
Thirty years after Carter's "malaise speech," the language of humility and civic obligation resonates more powerfully than ever. On July 15,...
American Prospect, The, 04/01/09 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication -
Two Cultures of Academe, The
Last year, we took a stroll to our university's library and requested the current salary report on all members of our university's community. Not a...
Academe, 07/01/08 by Mattson, Kevin; Bernt, Joseph · More from publication -
The center can hold: why Democrats should not fear compromise
At first glance, as the 2008 campaign swings into high gear, prospects for the Democratic Party couldn't seem brighter. The Bush presidency is...
Commonweal, 11/09/07 by Kevin Mattson · More from publication -
A One-Man Think Tank
Richard Hofstadter Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography David S. Brown University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 282 pp. History is...
Commonweal, 06/02/06 by Kevin Mattson · More from publication -
A student bill of fights: the right takes aim at the ivory tower--brandishing a new legislative agenda.(Rigghtwing persecution of liberals in education)
Emboldened by political victory, the right has gone hunting in the last refuge of the liberal elite--our universities--to smoke out radicals....
Nation, The, 04/04/05 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication -
Why "Active Learning" Can Be Perilous to the Profession
Faculty and administrators are paying new attention to student learning, sometimes for the wrong reasons. You've probably heard the terms "active"...
Academe, 01/01/05 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication -
From the heartland: could Kerry have won Ohio?
A sadness has set in. Throughout my small town in southeastern, Appalachian Ohio, people ask, "How's it going?" Typically you hear, "Could be...
Commonweal, 11/19/04 by Kevin Mattson · More from publication -
Christopher Lasch and the possibilities of chastened liberalism.
I appreciate what is valuable in the liberal tradition, which seemed to me at one time to offer the best hope of a decent kind of politics,...
Polity, 04/01/04 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication -
MASS CULTURE REVISITED
MASS CULTURE REVISITED beyond tail fins and jitterbuggers Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America...
Radical Society, 04/01/03 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication -
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Literary Left.(Book Review)
By Alan Wald. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xvii + 412 pages. The more we learn about certain revelations from the...
CLIO, 01/01/03 by Mattson, Kevin · More from publication
