Word: mccarthyism
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Despite Summers’ assessment of the University’s sterling record in the 1950s, closer scrutiny of Harvard’s response to McCarthyism reveals a public façade not entirely consistent with reality...
...other cases involving non-tenured faculty, the University’s record was not as exemplary, despite the oft-told story of Harvard’s bravery against McCarthyism cited in Summers’ speech...
...reason that Summers is ‘congratulating’ Harvard is because the University did not fire its one tenured Fifth Amendment witness,” says Ellen Schrecker ’60, a professor at Yeshiva University and the author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities...
...always asked, is McCarthyism going to return,” Schrecker says. “It’s clearly not the same thing...
...Crimson was at the forefront of the fight against McCarthyism,” says then-Crimson President Philip M. Cronin...