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In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness
Columbia University as security state.
by
Ellen Schrecker
,
Nina Berman
via
VQR
on
July 10, 2025
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.
by
Ellen Schrecker
via
The Nation
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on
April 3, 2025
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
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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
via
The Nation
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on
May 21, 2018
Book
No Ivory Tower
: McCarthyism and the Universities
Ellen Schrecker
1986
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Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting
When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.
by
Alan Wald
via
Boston Review
on
October 1, 1986
The Red Scare Is American Past and Present
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.
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Benjamin Balthaser
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Jacobin
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on
October 19, 2025
Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular
The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.
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Isaac Kamola
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Academe
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March 24, 2025
No, We’re Not in a New McCarthy Era
Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.
by
John K. Wilson
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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on
January 31, 2025
Maurice Isserman’s Red Scare
A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.
by
Benjamin Balthaser
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The Baffler
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on
November 21, 2024
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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on
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.
by
Dan Kaufman
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The New Republic
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on
October 2, 2020
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.
by
Richard Seymour
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The Guardian
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September 26, 2020
