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Political Repression and the AAUP from 1915 to the Present
How can we most efficiently defend the imperiled academy?
by
Ellen Schrecker
via
Academe
on
October 10, 2023
The 50-Year War on Higher Education
To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.
by
Ellen Schrecker
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
October 14, 2022
Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism
Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.
by
Ellen Schrecker
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The Nation
on
May 21, 2018
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Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.
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A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.
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Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
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The Real Legacy of a Demagogue
A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.
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Why is the Nationalist Right Hallucinating a ‘Communist Enemy’?
Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.
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Richard Seymour
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