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Today’s climate of repression recalls that of McCarthyism & the height of the anti-communist Red Scare in the 1950s, but leading scholars of McCarthyism & political repression say that the attacks on higher ed, free speech, & political repression we’re seeing today are “worse” & “much broader.”

Apr 29, 2025, 2:42 AM

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