Word: mccarthyism
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...with each other, and had Pusey been elected the head of a less influential institution, McCarthy may never have heard his name. But Pusey, as president of Harvard, quickly realized he had tremendous influence over the nation’s academic discourse. He chose to challenge creeping McCarthyism by rallying academics behind free speech and the independence of universities, leading the circle of critics who saved America from paranoid implosion. It is no coincidence, then, that he is remembered as one of the strongest and most effective Harvard presidents of this century: “the transformer of modern Harvard?...
...empty glass in this situation. Not only will these rumors cost a deserving and honest candidate votes, but they further spread the acceptability of xenophobia in our media and our society. Muslims, in particular, have become an easy target for sensationalist media with thriving post-9/11 McCarthyism. Never mind the fact that Obama is a committed Christian; an even-speculative connection to Islam is enough in some people’s eyes to discredit his entire life’s work. Like the rumors spread about Senator John McCain’s illegitimate black child in 2000, this political...
...also a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a Crimson president. Two-time candidate for Senate Corliss Lamont ’24, Ned’s great-uncle, was a director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for 22 years, was a vocal opponent of McCarthyism, and won a suit against the Central Intelligence Agency after he discovered that the intelligence agency had been reading his mail.The Harvard connections continue. Ned’s grandfather, Thomas S. Lamont ’21, was a member of the Harvard Corporation. Ned’s father, Edward M. Lamont...
...muscular display at Harvard’s bully pulpit replaced our worry with fear. Soon after 9/11, Summers delivered a speech urging the University to be more patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens the indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank...
...While their aloof, athletic McCarthyism towards high profile sports has failed to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing the level of competition to the point that a move to Division III would be acceptable or prudent, it provided me with basically all of my column material during my time here...