McCarthyism
Phenomenon of US political rhetoric after WWII
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| March 2025 |
Harisiades v. Shaughnessy
The case of Harisiades v. Shaughnessy was highlighted after the detention of Mahmoud Khalil during the second Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants, with different legal perspectives emerging from the Algemeiner Journal, Center for Immigration Studies, and Nadine Strossen.
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| March 2025 |
Harisiades v. Shaughnessy
The Department of Justice cites Harisiades v. Shaughnessy as legal precedent to justify the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, arguing for presidential authority over immigration and national security.
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| 2024 | NLG president Suzanne Adely comments on the Venezuelan presidential election, defending its fairness and transparency. |
| 2024 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The Meeropols received a copy of a hand-written memo by Meredith Gardner, suggesting Ethel Rosenberg knew about Julius' espionage but did not actively participate due to ill health.
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| 2024 |
Dalton Trumbo
Trumbo is featured in the biographical historical drama 'Reagan', portrayed by actor Sean Hankinson.
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| February 2024 |
Robert Conquest
A street in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was renamed after Robert Conquest.
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| 2023 |
Oppenheimer security clearance hearing
Christopher Nolan's biopic 'Oppenheimer' released, portraying both the security hearing and Lewis Strauss confirmation hearing.
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| 2023 |
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Portrayed by Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's film 'Oppenheimer', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Murphy winning Best Actor.
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| 2023 |
Lester C. Hunt
A television miniseries based on Thomas Mallon's Fellow Travelers was released, incorporating elements of Hunt's story.
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| 2023 |
Lavender Scare
Mini-series 'Fellow Travelers' released, adapting Thomas Mallon's novel and exploring a decades-long romance between two men during the height of McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare.
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| December 16 2022 |
J. Robert Oppenheimer
United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the 1954 security clearance decision, affirming Oppenheimer's loyalty.
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| 2021 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Ethel's sons restarted their campaign to pardon her, hoping President Joe Biden would consider it favorably. Anne Sebba's book 'Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy' was published.
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| 2021 |
Qian Xuesen
Another biopic film about Qian Xuesen, directed by Zhang Jianya with Chen Kun, Zhang Yuqi, and Zhang Tielin, was released.
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| 2020 |
Political views of American academics
A study reveals a regression to the mean effect, demonstrating that both left-wing and right-wing students become more moderate during their college experience.
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| 2020 |
Political views of American academics
A research study was conducted examining 194 psychology papers to evaluate the relationship between perceived political slant in research and its scientific qualities. The study found no direct link between political perception and research replicability, impact factor, or design quality, but discovered modest evidence suggesting that research with a more pronounced political slant (from either liberal or conservative perspectives) tends to be less replicable.
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| September 2020 |
Whittaker Chambers
Two Maryland senators, Justin Ready and Michael Hough, proposed creating a Whittaker Chambers Memorial as part of the National Garden of American Heroes, following an executive order by Donald J. Trump.
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| March 2020 |
Robert Conquest
A new Collected Poems, edited by Elizabeth Conquest, was published by the Waywiser Press.
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| January 6 2020 |
Lester C. Hunt
Buddy Hunt died in Chicago at the age of 92.
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| 2019 | The Sun-Sentinel published a retrospective report characterizing the Johns Committee's actions as persecution of civil rights leaders, university professors, college students, public school teachers, and state employees, using tactics of entrapment and blackmail while ignoring due process and civil liberties. |
| 2019 | State Representative Evan Jenne and State Senator Lauren Book introduced a resolution offering a formal and heartfelt apology for the actions of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, though the resolution had not yet passed and was not expected to receive immediate approval. |
| 2019 |
Lavender Scare
The documentary film opened in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, bringing wider public attention to the Lavender Scare historical narrative.
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| 2019 |
Lavender Scare
Alternate history TV series 'For All Mankind' depicts NASA employees posing as a couple to avoid persecution during the Lavender Scare.
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| November 19 2019 | Published a World View piece in Nature journal titled 'Stop the science training that demands don't ask'. |
| June 18 2019 |
Lavender Scare
PBS televised 'The Lavender Scare' documentary film, which details the historical persecution of LGBTQ+ government employees during the mid-20th century.
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| May 31 2019 | Honored at a seminar by the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society in Oxford for his 90th birthday. |
| March 2019 |
Whittaker Chambers
The Wall Street Journal reports strong opposition from Whittaker Chambers's family to the award recipients, leading to criticism of the award's alignment with Chambers's principles.
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| February 2019 |
Whittaker Chambers
NRI announced Mark Janus as the second biennial winner of the Whittaker Chambers Award.
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| 2018 |
Political views of American academics
Mitchell Langbert conducted a study examining political party registration variations among academic faculty, revealing higher concentrations of Democrats in elite liberal arts institutions in the northeast and more Democrats among female faculty.
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| April 2017 |
Anti anti-communism
University of Bern conference on 'Anti-Communist persecutions in the 20th Century', where Ronald Grigor Suny suggested writing 'The Black Book of Anti-Communism'.
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| March 16 2017 |
Whittaker Chambers
Daniel Hannan MEP receives the first Whittaker Chambers Award, dubbed 'the man who brought you Brexit'.
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| January 2017 |
Whittaker Chambers
National Review Institute (NRI) inaugurated the 'Whittaker Chambers Award' at its 2017 Ideas Summit.
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| January 2017 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to President Obama requesting consideration of Ethel Rosenberg's exoneration.
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| 2016 |
Political views of American academics
Political scientist Samuel J. Abrams published an opinion column in The New York Times analyzing political faculty ratios, highlighting a 28:1 liberal to conservative ratio in New England compared to 6:1 nationally.
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| 2016 |
Dalton Trumbo
A statue of Trumbo was installed in front of the Avalon Theater in Grand Junction, Colorado, depicting him writing a screenplay in a bathtub.
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| 2016 |
Lavender Scare
Opera 'Fellow Travelers' premiered, based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel, dramatizing a love story set during the Lavender Scare in McCarthy-era Washington D.C.
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| October 2016 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Michael and Robert Meeropol spoke with Anderson Cooper in a 60 Minutes interview about their parents' case.
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| June 2016 | Interviewed by the Great Transition Initiative's blog. |
| March 2016 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Michael and Robert Meeropol launched a petition campaign calling on President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg.
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| 2015 |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Michael and Robert Meeropol called on President Barack Obama's administration to acknowledge Ethel Rosenberg's wrongful conviction and execution.
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| November 2015 |
Dalton Trumbo
A biographical drama 'Trumbo' was released, starring Bryan Cranston in the title role. Cranston was subsequently nominated for Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards for his portrayal.
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| October 2015 |
Lester C. Hunt
Buddy Hunt completed his first on-camera interview about his arrest and his father's suicide for the Yahoo News documentary 'Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays'.
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| 2014 |
Political views of American academics
A study in social psychology found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a ratio of 11:1 among academics in the field.
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| 2014 |
Anti anti-communism
Jonathan Chait critiqued Stephen F. Cohen's use of anti anti-communism, describing his rhetorical approach as 'anti-anti-Putinism'.
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| 2013 |
Lester C. Hunt
A mock trial of Hunt's Senate colleagues McCarthy, Welker, and Bridges was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, organized to coincide with the publication of Rodger McDaniel's book Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins, bringing renewed attention to Hunt's historical narrative.
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| 2012 |
Robert Conquest
Awarded the Dan David Prize.
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| 2012 |
Anti anti-communism
Jodi Dean published 'The Communist Horizon', arguing for a more nuanced understanding of communism beyond Soviet Union stereotypes.
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| March 2 2012 |
Qian Xuesen
The film 'Hsue-shen Tsien' was released in China.
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| 2011 | The NLG defends the Occupy movement in the United States, using legal actions to prevent forced dispersal of protest sites. |
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