You (Really) Don't Need a Weatherman
McCarthyism is a term rarely heard since the Cold War ended, but, like "red-baiting," it used to get tossed around on the left entirely too loosely during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. There were those who failed to understand that it's not red-baiting to point out that a person is a Communist--if that person really is a Communist. McCarthyism is a little more complicated. Full Story »
Posted by Alan Horn
