Worse than McCarthyism? Prof. Ellen Schrecker on Trump's Repression (G&R 392)

Ellen Schrecker is the preeminent historian of McCarthyism/The Red Scare in America and we had a really great conversation with her about the resurgence of political repression today . . . Professor Schrecker argues that what we're seeing right now under the Trump administration, especially the attack on Palestine advocates on campuses, is already worse than the early Cold War years. We discussed how the two periods compare: what the motivation was (charges of communism and anti-semitism); the ways in which targeted groups, such as universities and unions, purged themselves before the government had to do it; how the resistance today is so much larger than it was in the 1950s; and what we can do to combat it.

Bio//

Ellen Schrecker is professor emerita at Yeshiva University and has published extensively on McCarthyism in America, especially the red scare and the universities. Her books include:

. . . The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s

. . . The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University.

. . . Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism (Editor).

. . . American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism (compact disc).

. . . The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents

. . . Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.

. . . No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities

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+ Prof. Schrecker's Website: https://www.ellenschrecker.com/

+ Ellen Schrecker: Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump (https://bit.ly/4kDh7Fa)

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