McCarthyism

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• 10/6/19
  

  The New McCarthyism?

  by Andrew Feffer

  Unfortunately, the term has become almost entirely evacuated of its historical and political meaning. Historians need to set the record straight.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  3/7/19
  

  Historians Nathan Connolly and Ed Ayers Give A History Of "Socialism" As A Scare Tactic In American Politics

  “Before it really became a dirty word, it became a very popular word."

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  10-9-18
  

  Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump

  by Juan Cole

  The New Islamophobia Looks Like the Old McCarthyism.

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• 9/30/18
  

  In This Dark Hour It’s Important to Remember that Good Journalism Has Triumphed Before

  by Marvin Kalb

  A veteran journalist recounts the times in modern history when journalists changed history.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-1-18
  

  How an Actual GOP Hero Spoke Truth to Power—68 Years Ago

  by Mindy Finn

  Few remember Senator Margaret Chase Smith. But a Republican with some backbone would do well to follow the example she set as McCarthyism flourished.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5-21-18
  

  Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

  by Ellen Schrecker

  Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  8-11-17
  

  ‘McCarthyism’ Is Wildly Overused—but this Higgins Memo Is the Real Deal

  by Ronald Radosh

  For Tail-Gunner Joe, it was liberals and communists; for the fired NSC staffer—and for Steve Bannon and others—it’s the left and Islamists. But the attack is exactly the same.

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• SOURCE: Princeton University Press
  7-28-17
  

  What McCarthyism Can Teach Us about Trumpism

  by Landon R. Y. Storrs

  McCarthyism wound down thanks to the courage of independent journalists, the decision after four long years of McCarthy’s fellow Republican senators to put country above party, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions in cases brought by defendants and lawyers.

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• 4-2-17
  

  The Red Scare: A Grandparents’ Story that Seems All-too-Relevant in the Age of Trump

  by Jeremy Stern

  My grandparents fled Tsarist Russia to escape persecution for their ideas and their Judaism. They found a far freer nation ‒ but also reminders that freedom is not always secure, even in America.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3-6-17
  

  Steve Bannon in 2013: Joseph McCarthy was right in crusade against Communist infiltration

  "The place was infested with either traitors that were on the direct payroll of Soviet military intelligence or fellow-travelers who were kind of compliant in helping these guys get along." – Steve Bannon, in an interview with Diane West, rightwing author of ""American Betrayal."

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• SOURCE: The National
  1-9-17
  

  Ellen Schrecker offers lessons on how to survive Trumpism

  by Ellen Schrecker

  An expert on the McCarthy Era, she writes from experience and research.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-30-16
  

  Ellen Schrecker says professors should be worried about a New McCarthyism

  by Ellen Schrecker

  Linking the campaign against PC to the threat of terrorism could start a new academic witch hunt, she warns.

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• 9-13-15
  

  Did You Know California Requires Professors to Sign a Loyalty Oath?

  by Marc Stein

  Here’s why that is troubling.

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• 7-7-14
  

  Conservatives divided over a book that claims US foreign policy in WW II was directed by Moscow (more or less)

  by HNN Staff

  A book published in 2013 is roiling conservative ranks in 2014. 

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• Review of Phillip Deery's "Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York"

  by Andrew Feffer

  This is an extremely well documented, lucidly written study, using personal correspondence, Party records and other archival sources amplified by newly declassified FBI files.

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  8-6-13
  

  Jon Kiriakou: Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism

  John Kiriakou is a former CIA analyst and whistleblower. He worked for the agency from 1990 to 2004, including as chief of counterterrorist operations in Pakistan. In an interview in 2009, he became the first former government official to confirm the use of waterboarding against al-Qaida suspects. From 2009 to 2011, John was a senior investigator for the US Senate foreign relations committee. In 2012, he was charged with leaking classified information to journalists; he is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence in Loretto, Pennsylvania

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• Diana West's "American Betrayal" is McCarthy on Steroids

  by Ron Radosh

  Originally published on FrontPageMag.

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• The Case for Sparing the Rosenbergs

  by Lori Clune

  Credit: Wiki Commons.Sixty years ago this week, Ethel Rosenberg was strapped into the same electric chair that killed her husband Julius moments before. Her gruesome death ended the spy case that captured worldwide attention. Julius Rosenberg had been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit espionage, specifically passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had also ordered the arrest of Julius’ wife Ethel, hoping to use her as a “lever” to get Julius to name other spies. He never spoke. They both died instead.The grisly executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953 made their sons orphans and shocked the world. The Rosenbergs remain the only married couple executed for a federal crime and the only civilians killed for spying.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  3-6-13
  

  Robert D. Parmet: Review of Robert M. Lichtman's "The Supreme Court and McCarthy-Era Repression: One Hundred Decisions" (Illinois, 2012)

  Robert D. Parmet is Professor of History at York College of the City University of New York.Irving Adler was one of 378 New York City teachers ousted for violating the state’s Feinberg Law (1949), which made past or present membership in the Communist Party sufficient ground for dismissing public school teachers.  Fifteen years after Adler’s removal, in Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967), the United States Supreme Court declared that law unconstitutional, enabling his reinstatement and subsequent receipt of a pension. Ensnared in the Second Red Scare, a period dominated by the presence of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the fear his presence generated, Adler and other loyal Americans were injured in many ways.

• SOURCE: AP
  2-23-13
  

  Anti-communist oaths persist despite court rulings

  It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or holding public-sector jobs is unconstitutional.Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books.Washington is one of a handful of states with similar laws still in existence despite their having been declared unconstitutional decades ago.With few exceptions - most notably Georgia, where an anti-communist oath was administered to incoming Dunwoody City Councilmembers as recently as last year - the laws are treated as part of a bygone era, not unlike state statutes prohibiting interracial marriage, the last of which was removed from Alabama's books in 2001 even though the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in 1967.