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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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Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare
A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.
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Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
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Jeet Heer
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The Nation
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October 6, 2020
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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Dan Kaufman
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The New Republic
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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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The Guardian
on
September 26, 2020
