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So to Speak podcast: McCarthyism and The Red Scare

Ellen Schrecker (www.ellenschrecker.com)
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?â€
On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we explore how America’s fear of communism in the early- to mid-20th century led to firings and blacklists in Hollywood, government, and higher education — and how these actions compromised America’s treasured principles of free speech, free conscience, free association, and due process of law.
We are joined by , a former professor at Yeshiva University and the author of and . Click here for a transcript of the conversation.
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