Word: mccarthyistic
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...feel that a lot of the parallels really resonate between what Voltaire was meaning to satirize and what Bernstein saw in his own time,” says the director, relating a scene that was originally about the Spanish Inquisition to a scene that has been updated to reflect McCarthyist themes...
That spring, the mounting pressure on academic institutions to root out communists in their ranks came to a head at Harvard, when three members of the Harvard faculty became targets of a McCarthyist investigation...
...McCarthyist investigations—and the waves of suspicion that followed—set the tone for a generation that, politically active or not, could not escape the fear that spread all the way to the University’s hallowed halls...
Attempts to silence free speech have continued, and especially on matters concerning Israel and Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). In a particularly McCarthyist turn, a recently founded website called Campus Watch encourages students to report professors who criticize Israel. The emergent divestment movement which hopes to pressure Israel to end its military occupation has met with similarly unfair tactics. As students on campuses across the country have called for universities to withdraw U.S. subsidies and corporate investments supporting the highly repressive policies of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories, these students have been called anti-Semites. This...
Fallows says Pusey's "unbending rectitude" sent "the right symbolic message" 15 years earlier in the face of McCarthyist interrogation of universities...