McCarthyism

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• 4/10/2022
  

  Ketanji Brown Jackson's Forbearance Echoed Jackie Robinson Before HUAC

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  In a Congressional hearing intended to sow guilt by association between civil rights and global communism, the baseball great refused to take the bait, keeping the focus on the need for justice and fairness in America.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/30/2022
  

  Nationwide, Faculty Fight for Academic Freedom

  by Ellen Schrecker

  "When they act collectively, professors have the power to protect academic freedom and the desire to teach the truth. Let us hope they also have the will."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/24/2022
  

  Lessons From the Struggle Against the Old McCarthyism

  by Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin

  For a Texas professor, the Lieutenant Governor's push to abolish tenure and punish faculty for teaching certain ideas calls to mind the experiences of his grandparents in the heyday of McCarthy and HUAC. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/15/2021
  

  The Forgotten Film That Paved The Way For This Year’s Oscars Contenders

  by Rebecca Prime

  For the 1968 film "Uptight!," white director Jules Dassin enlisted Ruby Dee and Julian Mayfield to remake the 1935 film "The Informer" around the Black Panther Party, a move which drew on all three principals' experiences with surveillance over political activism and provoked a sabotage effort by the FBI.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  2/21/2021
  

  What the FBI Had on Grandpa

  by Molly Jong-Fast

  "I never considered my grandfather to be a danger to the republic, but J. Edgar Hoover disagreed." The FBI surveilled writer Howard Fast extensively, though, as he wrote in his autobiography, "the eleven hundred pages detailed every—or almost every—decent act I had performed in my life."

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• SOURCE: Medium
  12/9/2020
  

  The Other ‘Mank’: Joe Mankiewicz and the Wildest Night in Hollywood History

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Netflix film "Mank" provides an opportunity to remember the civil liberties stand taken by Frank Mankiewicz's brother Joe, who opposed the imposition of loyalty oaths on the Directors' Guild at the height of the postwar red scare. 

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  9/24/2020
  

  The Red Scare and Women in Government

  McCarthyite attacks on the political left also pushed women out of policymaking positions in the federal government, the historian Landon Storrs argues. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/27/2020
  

  Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods

  McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/4/2020
  

  How Eisenhower Secretly Pushed Back Against McCarthyism

  To the end of his life, David A. Nichols says, “Eisenhower never admitted that the White House was behind this.” Yet he couldn’t help but gloat a bit in private. On at least one occasion, he reportedly repeated a joke that “it’s no longer McCarthyism, it’s McCarthywasm.” 

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• 1/5/19
  

  New PBS Documentary "McCarthy" Highlights a Tumultuous Time in Our History

  by Julia Brown

  Director Sharon Grimberg discusses her new documentary "McCarthy," premiering on American Experience January 6, 2020. 

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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."