IN PRINT...
The links below are to
writings that I’ve done since about 2003 or so, when more things started to
get posted on-line. This is not a
complete list of my writings, but it will have to suffice.
Anything I write after these articles (September 2009 is the cut-off
here) will be found in the News
section.
“Jimmy Carter’s
‘Crisis of Confidence’ Speech Still Matters,” written for History News
Service and printed under different titles in a variety of newspapers across the
http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2009/070709a.html
“A
Politics of National Sacrifice,” American
Prospect, April 2009.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_politics_of_national_sacrifice
“Remembering
John Patrick Diggins,” Dissent
website,
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=205
“Sarah
Palin and the Sad State of
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=140
“Who’s
Being Partisan: A Debate with Sean Wilentz about the 2008 election,” History
News Network, posted
http://hnn.us/articles/51035.html
There were three longer pieces I did about the American right at the time that my book, Rebels All!, was coming out. Here they are:
On
Jonah Goldberg:
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.3/mattson.php
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1244
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_02/2456
“The Two Cultures: Why
Faculty Are Looking at The Top of the Pyramid and Doing Something About It,” Academe,
July/August 2008 (with Joseph Bernt).
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2008/JA/Feat/matt.htm
I wrote a series of
pieces on the 2008 Democratic primary as well as the general election for the
Guardian USA. Instead of listing
each individual piece, here’s an overview:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/kevinmattson
On Bill Buckley:
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=remembering_buckley_for_the_right_reasons
More
on the election of 2008 with my friend, John Gilliom (the title didn’t really
work for us, but…):
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=where_both_democrats_went_wrong_in_ohio
Gotta
love that Cold War: “Debating the Cold War with Joanne Barkan,” Dissent,
Winter 2006.
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=747
“History
Lesson: Those who don’t know history are doomed to distort it – and our
political discourse,” Democracy,
Winter 2006.
http://www.democracyjournal.org/article.php?ID=6506
“An
Age of Anxiety?”
http://bostonreview.net/BR31.4/mattson.php
Here’s
a little ditty on young movie makers:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=665
Of
the numerous things I wrote about Upton Sinclair, there’s only one on-line:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0419-25.htm
“The
Book of Liberal Virtues,” American
Prospect, February 2006.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_book_of_liberal_virtues
“A
Debate with Michael Kazin about William Jennings Bryan, the Left, and
Religion,” American Prospect on-line
edition, posted
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=life_of_bryan
“Channeling
History,” Dissent, Fall, 2005, now
anthologized in Joan Gorham, ed. Annual
Editions: Mass Media (McGraw Hill, 2007).
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=185
“Academic
Freedom: Horowitz versus Mattson: A Debate,” Frontpage magazine,
http://frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7699
“A
Student Bill of Fights,” The Nation,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050404/mattson
“Goodbye
to All That,” American Prospect,
April 2005; reprinted in Current
magazine, July/August 2005.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=9389
“Revisiting
Arthur Schlesinger’s The Vital Center,”
Dissent, Winter 2005.
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=286
“Why
Active Learning Can Be Dangerous to the Profession,” Academe, January/February 2005.
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2005/JF/Feat/matt.htm
Two
older pieces on Michael Moore:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=510
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=322