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  • Sep 24, 2007

    Ronald Radosh: Review of David Everitt's A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television

    by Cliopatria

    There have been scores of accounts — in books, articles, documentary films, television, and Hollywood movies — of the blacklist in the movie industry. But virtually nothing has been written about the blacklist on the East Coast in radio and television. It is the merit of David Everitt's most readable and superbly researched "A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television" ( Ivan R. Dee, 411 pages, $27.50) that the author has disclosed that untold story and broken
  • Sep 23, 2007

    Urgency

    by Cliopatria

    The other day, I was chatting with a scientist about the history of science and related matters. When I told him I had taken a class on "Biology and Society", focused on eugenics and genetics, he replied something to the effect of "that's not really history of science, is it?" Actually, it was more of a statement than a question.

    This scientist, quite eminent in his field, had a positive reaction to my current project (on the history of molecular e

  • Sep 23, 2007

    Coatsworth Speaks

    by Cliopatria

    Historians rarely get the mega-headline at Drudge. Columbia University's Latin American historian and acting dean of the University's School of International and Public Affairs, John Coatsworth, holds it today. It features his explanation to Fox News that Adolph Hitler would have been invited to speak at Columbia, if he were willing to engage in a public interrogation of his
  • Sep 23, 2007

    A Clear Day and a Gridlocked War

    by Cliopatria

    It’s a beautiful day outside. In a bit, I’m going to enjoy it and perhaps get my blood pressure back to its normal borderline. Why the need for nature’s blood pressure tonic? This article on the war and senatorial fecklessness.

    I’ve written before about the underlying constitutional dilemma. The short version is this.

    The fourth great crisis of our national life is upon us. The first (1774-1794)