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Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson teaches intellectual history at Ohio University and is author of Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952.

Articles

“What should be the starting point for twenty-first-century thought?”
Kevin Mattson

Jonah Goldberg's liberal fascism.

Kevin Mattson
The old ideas won't work in the war on terror.
Kevin Mattson

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