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Contradictions in Cold War-era higher education

This week, managing editor Troy Reeves wears his Badgers pride proudly in an interview with historian Matthew Levin. Levin, who received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties (UW Press, 2013). Cold War University offers a long view of the 1960s, charting the UW-Madison?s transition from a center for military research to a hotbed of dissent, to unpack what Levin calls ?the contradictions of cold war era higher education.?