Joe McCarthy 
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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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SOURCE: Politico
3-26-17
The Ugly History Behind Trump’s Attacks on Civil Servants
by Landon R. Y. Storrs
President Trump’s criticisms of government workers have something in common with Joe McCarthy’s.
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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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