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Ashton Merck

Ashton Merck is a historian of business, law, and public policy. She earned her PhD from Duke University in 2020, where she researched food safety regulation in the 20th century.

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The Committee to Keep Dick Tasting

By Ashton Merck | August 8, 2021

Hi, any chance you might have sent Richard Nixon a dick joke fifty years ago?

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