Ellen Schrecker is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva University and the author of numerous books, including No Ivory Tower, Many Are the Crimes, and The Lost Soul of Higher Education.
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During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. As we will discover, McCarthyism was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin who gave it a name. I... SEE MORE