The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy - The Objective Standard
Nov 20, 2016 · Joseph McCarthy is the most unjustly demonized individual in American history. In February 1950, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, launched a massive …
Was Joseph McCarthy right? : r/AskHistorians - Reddit
Apr 28, 2017 · A somewhat obscure claim in American political circles is that Joseph McCarthy was right about the Soviet Union's degree of infiltration in the American political system and …
Five myths about McCarthyism - Anchorage Daily News
Aug 2, 2020 · "When McCarthy was right, he was not original and was only repeating charges made years earlier by others," Haynes wrote, in an email to another scholar. "When he was …
McCarthyism - Wikipedia
In a clear attack upon McCarthyism, she called for an end to "character assassinations" and named "some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; the right to hold …
WAS MCCARTHY RIGHT ABOUT THE LEFT? - The Washington Post
Apr 14, 1996 · But, as the right eye of American politics was blind to fascism in the 1930s, the left eye could not comprehend the nature of communism -- then or later. And where was Harry …
The Post-Standard was right about Sen. Joe McCarthy after all ...
Aug 13, 2021 · It took almost 70 years, but a recent book about Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy largely vindicates a 1951 Post-Standard editorial calling on the U.S. Senate to remove …
McCarthyism | Red Scare | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
Aug 10, 2023 · McCarthyism was a term coined in the 1950s to describe the practice of publicly accusing government employees or employees of government contractors of political …
Four Great Myths of the McCarthy Era - Reason.com
Apr 22, 2014 · People like Ann Coulter and M. Stanton Evans have taken to declaring that McCarthy was right without acknowledging that the bulk of his accusations were false, and that …
McCarthy Was Right on the Red Menace - Los Angeles Times
Dec 27, 1990 · Cormac McCarthy’s underage ‘secret muse’ tells her story (and reveals the stories she inspired)
Joseph McCarthy - The New York Times Web Archive
Joe McCarthy, Rovere concluded, had never actually believed in the monstrous crusade he had set in motion; anticommunism, patriotism, the Catholic church, were all tools for self …