Younger (and Older) Than the New Left

A scholar looks for the roots of '60s radicalism in the liberal tradition

The expression "generation gap" entered the cultural lexicon in the 1960s. And, fittingly enough, veterans of that decade's activism who became professors soon faced students too young to remember its politics and culture. Working on the intellectual roots of the New Left, Kevin Mattson, an associate professor of history at Ohio University at Athens, has had to navigate that gap from a different angle. After all,

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